Love & Other Drugs

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A love story involving the development and, more specifically, the marketing of viagra..."interesting" does not begin to discribe it. Though the role of a womanizer has been done time and time again, Jake Gyllenhaal) does not overdo it and therefore makes his performance more believible and makes an audience root for him in the end...I'm assuming that was a goal of the filmmakers here. Anne Hathaway plays a "leading lady" who is anything but a stereotypical leading lady. Though she and Gyllenhaal's characters hook up, she has a mind of her own and uses it, something always worth seeing. I have no doubt that her trips to Canada with senior citizens for cheap perscription drugs are based on something real, given our health care system. I personally love the fact that their relationship is anything but stereotypical...I mean, how many films have you seen that show a person having a panic attack during the same scene where they say "I love you"? But ultimately, I enjoy the film's portrayal of someone with an incurrible illness and the challenges they face, including the possibility of a relationship so many today take for granted. It's another one of those romantic comedies that stays down to Earth and shows us what is really possible if we want it bad enough. I have to credit the actors for this, though I'm told the director did a fair amount of anicdotal things to help them accomplish their performances, so hats-off to Edward Zwick. It's just one of those nice films to enjoy on a Friday or Saturday night with your loved one. Just don't use viagra afterwards unless you really have to...there's a scene in the film that will explain why. Otherwise, enjoy.

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I had a relative who lived with Parkinson's for over 10 years in our home. It was, to say the least, VERY challenging. This movie uses humor and real-world human desires and ambitions, plus what appear to be experiences from patients that have the disease, to explore what can and cannot be done with the disease, what commitment is needed to be the partner of somoene with Parkinson's, and what levels of treatment can be expected. And yet, the movie doesn't seem to be about the serious topics I've listed here, or at least not just about them. It is primarily a love story, an exploration of a male-female relationship. It is also about what the drug industry does right and where it falls down. It is about what movtivates a person to be a doctor, or to give up on being one. It can poke fun at situations and issues so that we don't take them too seriously, but inside we know we have to think about them and worry about them, even while we are laughing. In my opinion, Anne Hathaway gave a tremendous performance.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway give wonderful heartfelt, as well as heart-warming performances in this romantic comedy / drama. It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a film like this, because most are contrived and lack any real depth to them. Not the case with this movie. It's funny, it's mature, it's sexy, and it rings true on many levels...I won't give it away, but it's damn good. I rented it first, then I went right out and bought it in the same day. Life is about intimacy v.s. distance, joy v.s. pain, laughter v.s. tears, and all those other opposing dichotomies, which we must learn (hopefully) in our lifetimes to balance, to maintain a full and healthy exsistence, or better yet, a co-exsistence, while we are here. Oh yeah, and on a purely primal and somewhat adolescent level, I REALLY REALLY LOVED seeing JAKE GYLLENHAAL NAKED, a lot, in all of his god-given finery, during this film! (-: Anne Hathaway has a lot of buff time as well, and has a nice physique, but I'm not so much into the females. But, back to reality, this is a great film...full of laughs and poignant moments.

While the movie has a lot of gratuitous sex scenes as the title kind of implies it is a really poignant story. Anne Hathaway plays a 26 year old early onset Parkinson's patient who can't come to grips with the disease or having a permanent relationship with anyone because she doesn't feel she should be a burden. Jake's character starts out as a jigolo who plays the field and is afraid of commitment. Jake tells Anne he loves her while almost passing out from saying the words. Anne tells him he shouldn't say it and wants to keep the relationship physical only. After a medical convention in Chicago where Jake learns from the husband of a Parkinson's patient what he has to look forward to as the disease progresses and advises him to pack his things and leave a nice note while Anne attends a convention across the street for Parkinson's patients and learns that she doesn't have to feel condemned and limited and leaves the convention invigorated. She tells Jake when she rejoins him that she now loves him. Jake then drags her from clinic to clinic searching for a cure and Anne then tells him that he can't love her unless he knows she can be cured and dumps him. In the end, Jake chases her down and tells her that he's been afraid of commitment, she has been the first woman to see worth in him and make him believe it and that he wants her and their life just as it is. I believe it is one of Anne Hathaway's best performances ever.

Assuming you don't hate Jake Gyllenhaal or Anne Hathaway, this is a very cute romance with quirky characters and snappy dialogue. It has the occasional truly funny moment and an overall enjoyable storyline. Viagra salesman Jamie meets Parkinson's patient Maggie: both are into sport sex only and both refuse to fall in love. Naturally, things don't go quite the way they expect. Within the parameters of Hollywood romance, nothing is particularly surprising but the stops along the way to the inevitable conclusion are entertaining, sometimes hilarious. Jamie's brother, played by Josh Gad, is an especially fantastic bit of character work that gives Jamie's character perspective in the best of ways. The acting is very good from all the cast, the basic story is fairly fresh and new and the handling of Hathaway's character's illness is done right on the line of being realistic enough to have some weight and still be light enough for a fluffy romantic film (ie she's sick but she never looks unattractive even at the worst of it). There are many sex scenes, some quite explicit, but with two such beautiful actors, this is what makes it a good date night movie. They even make the attempt to be honest about Parkinson's, again while staying within the lines of a light comic romance. Worth a watch.

If you’ve seen the movie, The Idea of You, it is more a “Disney-type” version of the book! Unlike the movie, the book delves into the details of their sexual relationship so it’s a bit more salacious. I preferred the ending of the movie which inspired hope rather than that of the book. The author gives recognition to the fact that older women, 40+, are still vibrant, interesting, worthy of a loving and sexual relationship whether it is with a younger man or not. Why is it taboo for women to date younger men and not true for men who date younger women?!

Excellente histoire. Bons acteurs.

キャリア的にネガティヴになってないのが凄い。ハッピーエンドなのも良い。

Producto en buen estado, excelente peli

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