windsoc
05-22-14, 02:49 PM
I came across "Love & Other Drugs" for the wrong reasons, I am not going to lie. I loved Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" and I loved Anne Hathaway. L&OD tells the rather bitter story of Jamie Randall (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who is very much someone who wants to do something big with his life and live like he is still in college but has no idea how. After a chance meeting with Maggie Murdock (played by Hathaway) he wants to get to know her better through prescriptive medicine, prescriptive pot and lots and lots of sex.
From the outside this is not a nice film and Jamie Randall is an a**hole who only cares about his own skin, his own job and making sure he has enough money to see him through but it becomes more than that and this is played wonderfully and in two amazingly powerfully and very emotional scenes that remind me of why I like to begin with.
It's not perfect and there were bits that were so cheesy I wanted to put my head in my hands but overall I enjoyed it.
7.5/10
From the outside this is not a nice film and Jamie Randall is an a**hole who only cares about his own skin, his own job and making sure he has enough money to see him through but it becomes more than that and this is played wonderfully and in two amazingly powerfully and very emotional scenes that remind me of why I like to begin with.
It's not perfect and there were bits that were so cheesy I wanted to put my head in my hands but overall I enjoyed it.
7.5/10