Love and Other Drugs<\/em> suddenly deflates.<\/p>\nIt was like a souffl\u00e9 collapsing into a crater of soggy sap about how a debilitating, fatal disease might ask too much of love. Deflated, as well, are the viewers\u2019 initially gung-ho feelings for lead characters Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway) after viewing invigorating early scenes of them falling in four-alarm lust.\u00a0 When we first meet electronics-salesman Jamie, he\u2019s an exuberant, skilled and carefree lothario.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s rejected the \u201cmy son the doctor\u201d expectations of his parents (George Segal and the late Jill Clayburgh, in split-second on-screen roles).\u00a0 Next-best-thing\u2014since he\u2019s young, personable and extraordinarily handsome\u2014is to become a drug rep for pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, no less.\u00a0 Initial scenes of Jamie at sales-pitch boot camp show promise of further satirical edge.<\/p>\n
You lean forward, wanting to hear something indicting about this world of high-gloss, high-pressure catering to doctors and patients.\u00a0 But, the screenwriters pull up short and take a soft-sell, slapstick slant.\u00a0 Realizing he has to fine-tune his approach for securing face-to-face with docs, after continual stone-walling as he and Bruce, his sales partner (Oliver Platt), make the rounds, Jamie applies some irresistible wooing to the office staff of one Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria), with whom Jamie gains a foothold and a persuasive meeting.<\/p>\n
From there, he sabotages a rep from Lily, by tossing the guy\u2019s competing drug samples in a dumpster, which is being \u201cdived\u201d by a homeless man. As the prescriptions and his \u201cquota\u201d increase, it appears that Jamie\u2019s got just the right prescription for the good life; until he takes a hit of Maggie, the doe-eyed\u00a0beauty he meets one day while he\u2019s masquerading as an intern \u201cshadowing\u201d Dr. Knight.<\/span><\/p>\nMaggie\u2019s got a chip on her shoulder and a tremor in her hand.\u00a0 She\u2019s dealing with Parkinson\u2019s disease—not just physically, but emotionally; as she lets the disease keep her at arm\u2019s length from commitment. At first, her condition stays in the background, as she and Jamie let the urgency of heedless satisfaction of desire obscure and delay facing her reality.<\/p>\n
Eventually, she\u2019s running hot and cold, and hostile, as she flips between all sweet loving and histrionic melt-downs when she realizes Jamie\u2019s love could obligate him in the future to being her nursemaid.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Jamie learns about a little blue pill that he \u201ccould sell the s*#!t out of.\u201d\u00a0 Whenever it appears that the story is about to take some shots at how health care is handled in this country, it takes a detour into the superfluous and inane\u2014most often involving Jamie\u2019s brother Josh (Josh Gad), a \u201cfat dope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parkinson\u2019s is given vague and unbelievable attention, and the romance sinks to taking on shades of such films as Love Story, The Graduate <\/em>and Sweet November<\/em> (Sandy Dennis as a terminally ill woman signing up each man interested in her to share her life for one and only one month).<\/p>\nSharing between them four of the most hypnotic eyes in show business, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway are certainly worth the more than \u201cone hour relieving the pain of being you\u201d (Maggie\u2019s sarcastic pickup line to Jamie) it will take to enjoy their love scenes and undisguised thespian talents.\u00a0 Rated R for nudity, sexual situations, language and some drug use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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