Love & Other Drugs (2010)

It is a performances centric movie

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Well I must be honest with you guys. The first time I watched Love and other drugs I was completely amazed by its plot and the characters development...Watching this movie for the thousandth time made me really disappointed though. I think I made a mistake giving it 10 stars and now I made it only 6 (and I'm still doubting if it's not too much). The plot is kind of exceeded. Jackass that falls in love for the first time for a girl who has large walls built around her, but who at the same time apparently owns a huge self security (and has Parkinson). I don't think this is much of a spoiler, but, they fall in love with each other and in a relationship which, started by only casual sex, is surrounded by insecurities from both sides, they broke up, and then they come back again. I probably thought it was a great story and some kind of "masterpiece" of the current cinema (which is not THAT current though) because I was passing through some stuff in my life and I just got emotional watching it. But it is not like that. I just couldn't watch it for more than one hour the last time: somehow the story is weak and not even the talent of the main characters could save this movie from boredom. It's totally predictable, not to comment the uncountable frames where there's nothing new but the couple getting laid. This film is not trash, but it's bordering the trashy line... Something cool to watch when you don't't have nothing else to.

It is sad day for fans of Jake Gylenhall: to see such a good actor in a typical Hollywood syphilitic piece of "cinema"This picture is full of clichés with addition of old and low jokes. Let us be honest here: it is simply quite vulgar. And while being vulgar does not automatically mean that a comedy has to be bad, in this case all this vulgarity serves as a cheap paint over a poor executed material. Because the subject (the attempt of turning cinema goers attention to a dreadful disease of Parkinson) is made in such a way, that doctor James Parkinson must be now turning in his graveDo not waste time on this "romantic" "comedy". This picture has very little romance; this picture is almost completely not funny. This picture is simply boringOne would have to be a complete simpleton to enjoy this thing (that should not be called "movie" nor a "piece of cinema")

Came to my attention because I saw Movie Night's list of the Top Ten best nude scenes ever, and was really surprised to find Walt Disney star Anne Hathaway on there. Obtained the movie, but the box art generally strikes you as a romantic comedy, so I was quite surprised by that scene where Anne disrobed to be surprised by Josh Gad.There are movies out there who purport to be sexual, but they aren't ever as classy sexy as this one. Yes, there is a considerable mix-up of genres in this film, with something for everybody thrown in. One moment it is a romantic comedy, then it is clear that tragedy is inevitably around the corner, but interspersed are some of the sexiest scenes done on film, and then we're back with much, much bleaker stuff again.Morgan Freeman referred to Anne Hathaway as "the naked girl from LOVE & OTHER DRUGS"... Who'd have thought that after THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA...?Nice to see Katheryn Winnick in here as well, as 'bad girl' 'Lisa' after recently seeing her in that NIKITA episode.

"Love & Other Drugs" is another example of how Anne Hathaway is one of the most talented actresses from her generation. She managed to score a Golden Globe nomination just like her co-star Jake Gyllenhaal. I have to say I am not his greatest fan, so I was neither too impressed with his performance here nor did I manage to find him likable near the end which was probably the intention. He was just too unlikeable early on. The movie is directed by Edward Zwick, an Oscar-winning producer for "Shakespeare in Love".First of all, I want to say that the happy ending felt a bit forced in my opinion that they just had to close it with the two reuniting and it was a bit random. And didn't she say before she had somebody else already? Where did he go? Why did Gyllenhaal's character leave her anyway if he loved her? The whole split-up scene came totally out of nowhere only minutes after they confessed each other that they are in love. Anyway, Hathaway's enthusiastic behavior after the Parkinson convention was great to watch and she really nailed that scene. The whole convention and monologues were written nicely. What I did nit like about the film has'd mostly to do with Gyllenhaal's character. His brother was brought in for some comic relief, but added really nothing else. The final boner scenes were downright bad and brought some terrible "American Pie" humor to a film that did not fit it at all. Also, the whole medicine background story in the first half of the film was just not developed at all. That one scene when they talked about the impact of the medical industry at that point and included a reference to a Presidential candidate was downright bad. All of a sudden the movie seemed politically ambitious and it did not work out at all. The movie worked best as a somewhat different, more serious romantic comedy between the two protagonists.The film succeeds occasionally on an emotional level, for example when the older man tells Gyllenhaal's character to leave her and not go through all the struggles due to the illness. Another one would be when Gyllenhaal's character watches the video of his ex-girlfriend near the end. Gave me goosebumps. As a whole, the movie has some great scenes, some pretty weak scenes, but as a whole I'd recommend it, especially if you like one of the two main actors. Lots of graphic nudity too, so stay away if you're a bit on the prudish side.