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| Love And Other Drugs |
Love and Other Drugs (stylized Love & Other Drugs) is a 2010 romantic comedy film written and directed by Edward Zwick and based on the non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. The films stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who originally teamed up in Brokeback Mountain. The film was released in the U.S. on November 24, 2010, to mixed reviews from film critics.
Plot
In 1996, Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is fired from a Midwest town's electronics store for having sex with his manager's girlfriend. His wealthy brother Josh (Josh Gad) announces at the dinner table at their parents' (George Segal and Jill Clayburgh) house that he has found Jamie a job as a pharmaceutical sales representative. After attending a Pfizer
training program where he has sex with the instructor (Kate Jennings
Grant), Jamie goes to work for the company and tries to get doctors to
prescribe Zoloft and Zithromax. He is rebuffed, much to the dismay of his regional manager, Bruce (Oliver Platt), who sees Jamie as his ticket to the "big leagues" of Chicago.
Bruce says if Jamie can get Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria) to prescribe Zoloft instead of Prozac,
other doctors will follow his lead. Jamie tries to get access to Dr.
Knight by hitting on his female employees until, exasperated, Dr. Knight
unethically permits him to observe a disrobing patient, Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway), who suffers from early onset Parkinson's disease.
Jamie angles a date with Maggie, who has sex with him. Jamie is later beaten up by top-selling Prozac rep Trey (Gabriel Macht),
one of Maggie's ex-lovers, who warns him to stay away from her and the
doctors. That night, Jamie is unable to get an erection. Maggie
teasingly says he should use the new erectile dysfunction drug that his company has developed. Bruce confirms that such a drug, to be called Viagra, is about to be marketed. Jamie soon starts selling Viagra, an instant success.
Jamie wants a committed relationship, but Maggie refuses. Jamie
confronts her while she helps senior citizens onto a bus bound for Canada
to get cheap prescription drugs, and they get into an argument. Two
days later, after he waits the night before at the bus stop in his car,
he greets her back. Maggie is touched that he waited, and they resume
their relationship.
Jamie spends nights at Maggie's apartment. One night, he tells
Maggie that he loves her — the first time he has ever said that to
anyone — and has a panic attack. Maggie calms him by saying she "said 'I
love you' to a cat once".
Jamie catches his brother masturbating to a sex tape
that he and Maggie had filmed. Jamie asks her to go to a Chicago
medical conference with him. She ends up at a Parkinson's discussion
group across the street, and is moved by the people and their stories.
Jamie meets a man whose wife is in the final stages of the disease, and
asks for advice about Maggie. The man tells him to run. After the
convention, Maggie tells him how much she loves him.
Jamie starts researching Parkinson's, and takes Maggie to
different specialists around the country to have tests done. Jamie
becomes angry and upset when he arrives at an appointment, to find out
it has been rescheduled after they had flown in to see the doctor.
Maggie sees that Jamie can only love her if there's a hope that one day
there will be a cure, and decides to break up with him.
Some time later, Jamie goes to a restaurant and runs into Maggie,
who is on a date. Bruce shows up and reveals Jamie has been promoted to
the Chicago office. While packing to move to Chicago, Jamie finds the
videotape recorder where he taped himself and Maggie talking about life.
Jamie realizes he wants to be with Maggie, but her boss tells him she
has left for Canada to obtain drugs. Jamie flags down her bus and tells
her that she makes him a better person, and that he loves and needs her.
She starts to cry and says she will need him more. Jamie decides not
to take the job in Chicago, but instead he attends medical school and
stays with Maggie.
Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Randall
- Anne Hathaway as Maggie Murdock
- Josh Gad as Josh Randall
- Judy Greer as Cindy
- Gabriel Macht as Trey Hannigan
- Nikki DeLoach as Christy
- Oliver Platt as Bruce Jackson
- Hank Azaria as Dr. Knight
- George Segal as Dr. James Randall
- Jill Clayburgh as Nancy Randall
- Katheryn Winnick as Lisa
- Kate Jennings Grant as Gina
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