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Love & Other Drugs (2010)

November. 04,2010
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6.7
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R
| Drama Comedy Romance
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Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

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ThiefHott
2010/11/04

Too much of everything

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Cathardincu
2010/11/05

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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Pluskylang
2010/11/06

Great Film overall

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Intcatinfo
2010/11/07

A Masterpiece!

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Nobody-27
2010/11/08

I started watching this film more because I had to than because I wanted to. I was fully aware that I may not like it. I can usually tolerate even watching terrible stuff like the new Bladerunner, when there is a good reason.But this time, around 60 min mark, I had to stop. This film was hurting my brain, and burning holes in it. Why, you ask? Oh boy, where do I start. Let's see: A brother who jokes about oral sex (they used much more crude language in the scene however) with his brother during dinner with their mother present. That was supposed to be funny.An alienated looser of a drug salesman who has not a trace of humanity in him, falls in love with a girl who has no personality, other than her Parkinson. And I am supposed to care?Dialogues which confuse swearing with meaning. Crude and dumb to no end.Any time those things (bad dialogues, untenable relationship) fall apart, we get a sex scene, which is even worse. Sex is uninspired, loveless, crude, unfunny, uncaring, and all too logical/brainy to be interesting. It is what a teenager who never had sex imagines sex scenes should be like. Oh, and she does not want him back, and he falls for her even more, just like that. Bring that gawd-awful brother back!Jake G. and Anne H. were quite good, but good acting does not a good film make, especially not when the script is awful. They should have rejected those roles. I bet this film did not look any better on paper either.You get the idea. The film or script was made by people who have no interest or ability to understand human condition. They have the finesse of a nuclear weapon, and artistic flair of "paint by numbers" book. The result is this horror.Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and watch Miley Cirus to detox from this crap.

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Mihai Toma
2010/11/09

Jamie is a notorious playboy who doesn't care about anyone but himself. To him, life is a game, until one day when he gets fired as a result of his "actions". He gets another job as a drug representative and meets a lovely girl called Maggie which suffers from Parkinson's. They quickly form a relationship which starts only as "sex friends" but evolves over time, each of them falling in love with each other. In order to maintain their relation or even transform it into something more formal, they have to overcome a series of impediments, from her disease to his life style.It's a very interesting and romantic story but a bit too predictable for my taste and not as well composed as I hoped. It has a lot of moments when you simply cannot stop laughing, an aspect which I liked a lot, but it could have been a bit more polished. Overall, I think it's a good movie!

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Samantha Cordero
2010/11/10

The story conveys the reality of self confidence and relationship hardships for those who may have a disability. One with a disability might need to do things differently than one who is able-bodied. I believe the film appropriately expressed the message of how one may lack self confidence and maintaining relationships even though they might express differently to others. One never knows what goes on in one's life until one truly gets to know them. The negative that shown in the film was when Jamie and Maggie attend the convention in Chicago, an older man advises Jamie to find and marry a "healthy woman." The older man expresses how unhappy he is caring for his wife, who is a stage- four Parkinson's disease patient. This is what pushes the character Jamie selfishly to find a cure and have Maggie get better so he doesn't have to be like the older man. Also another negative was how the doctors and other salespeople characterized Maggie as "a sick girl" as if she was incapable. There was also a positive in film when Maggie attends the UNC Convention and she listens to other Parkinson's disease patients talking their own lives but they were also humorous towards it. Overall, I recommend watching this film, you'll definitely have a few laughs throughout the film.

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Davis P
2010/11/11

Like I said, I really liked Jake and Anne, their acting was engaging. Although, I feel like this film was very sex obsessed, which is NOT good for any film. I understand that sex was necessary to this movies plot, but their is NO need for overloading on it. I mean I just felt a lot of it was unnecessary. I did feel sort of bored in parts, and some of the humor wasn't funny and just didn't really work. Jake Gylanhaal's fat friend in the film was very annoying and I felt like his character would have been better played by a different actor. Jake and Anne did have great chemistry in the film, which was essential to a movie like this. That was Love and other drugs's best quality was the lead stars's chemistry when on screen together. All in all it was a well acted, mildly entertaining, somewhat boring dramatic romance. 5/10

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