Love & Other Drugs
Dir: Edward Zwick
2010
*
Edward Zwick? Really? It didn't feel like one of his films but then it's not really his genre. That is the only reason I can imagine why it is a complete and utter mess. The balance between serious drama and comedy is dreadful. The acting is embarrassing, I cannot believe the two leads got Golden Globe nominations, surely that was out of sympathy, or for being tricked into it maybe? I'm not apposed to a bit of nudity, in fact I love a bit of nudity but only when it has a place. Here it was just gratuitous, not 'Hey look at the passion between these two lovers' but more 'Hey look, forget the story (or lack of), we got Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway to take their clothes off, whoopie!'. Is it a film about love? Is it a film about the state of the national health? Is it a film about sacrifice? Is it a film about the greedy pharmaceutical companies? Does it even know what it's trying to be? Maybe the book it's based on; Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, makes sense and is a good read and this is just a poor adaptation, I don't know but either way, the film is stupid, formulaic and a guide on how not to make a film. Note to film makers, if you're going to make a 'Rom-com, you should make sure that it is a) Romantic and b) Funny. Sleeping in ones car overnight to wait for them even though they live just around the corner is not romantic and seeing a fat mans bottom is not funny. I hated every minute of it.