Reviews & Ratings for
Love & Other Drugs (2010)

With two super charming lead actors,this film is so soothing for the eye! Though,if we are to comment on the content, the opinions will differ. The concept can be aptly expressed in the adage,' old wine in new bottles'. A womanizer,Jamie(Jake Gyllenhaal) falling hopelessly in love with a woman,which forces him to mend his ways! This is the plot in a nutshell! The heroine-Maggie(Hathaway) is a frail,young lady suffering from Parkinson's who fiercely guards her dignity and avoids commitments in fear of being a burden on someone . Their love-story blossoms in the chamber of a physician Dr. Knight(Azaria),where Maggie has come to seek treatment and Jamie to sell the products of his employer,the pharmaceutical giant,Pfizer.
What forms the lifeline of the plot is the war of drugs! The commercial facet of healthcare sector-the competition among manufacturing companies,their shrewd ways of luring doctors to prescribe their drugs over others-in short it shows the life and challenging,yet hilarious ways of persuasion adopted a medical representative. Without being too grumpy or mawkish regarding the selfish mercenary pursuits of doctors or healthcare professionals,the film deals more with the funny aspects of the job! For example,the promotion of the drug Viagra and people's interests being drawn by exaggerations hilarious! It becomes even more funny when Jamie becomes a victim of Viagra's side-effects!
At times,the love-story becomes too sugary to handle...when an independent woman in Maggie falls apart in need of love,and the lover in Jamie who chickens out on hearing the inescapable problems that living with a Parkinson's patient entails! Yet the acting is restrained and believable. Both the lead actors have done marvelous job and there are some really steamy scenes splattered across the movie! Over-all a different rom-com with loads of humor