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Movies & TV

Love And Other Drugs

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (Fox, 2010) D: Edward Zwick, w/ Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway. Rating: NNNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNNN


This is the kind of movie that gives romantic comedy a good name. It’s smart, sexy, funny and centred on an unusual and believable romance between two people who, for once, are equally well developed.

Hustling pharmaceutical salesman Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is all about money and sex. When Viagra hits the market, he gets lots of both. Artist Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway) has stage-one Parkinson’s disease. She wants lots of sex and absolutely no relationships. They’re perfect for each other until emotion rears its head, and then they run the other way.

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway sparkle and suffer with great credibility and play off each other with flawless timing, and they’re not the whole show. The world of doctors, drug reps and casual sex gets some sharp satiric digs, and that hoary cliché, the heroine with the terrible disease, is made fresh again.

The extras are brief and pointed: a few minutes on characters and working methods, some real-life background on selling pharmaceuticals. Check out the deleted scenes. They’re fun and add a bit to the story.

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