 Love and Other Drugs
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, Judy Greer, Jaimie Alexander, Hank Azaria
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Screenplay: Marshall Herskovitz
Release: November 24th, 2010
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, and some drug material.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
 Domestic: $32,367,005 (34.6%)
Foreign: $61,200,000 (65.4%)
Total: $93,567,005 (Worldwide)
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 Maggie (Anne Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in 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.
Based on Jamie Reidy's memoir "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman." Edward Zwick directs, produces and co-wrote the screenplay for this unconventional and realistic romance that explores the nature of love and sex, how sex/lust evolves into love, and the ways people try and figure it all out. “Love & Other Drugs presents two people who are desperate not to go to a deeper, more profound place in their connection to one another,” says Zwick. “But their appeal to each other and the nature of the love are so powerful they defeat the couple’s impulses to resist connecting. Jamie and Maggie just can’t help but fall in love no matter how much they try to avoid it. They surrender to something stronger than their intentions. And that’s fun to watch because it provides comedy and emotion.”
Those themes certainly resonated with the film’s two leads. “Love & Other Drugs is about what it takes to let love in,” says Anne Hathaway. “Love is hard work and it’s scary – and it’s all totally worth it!” Adds Jake yllenhaal: “It’s a comedy and a love story about two people who are running away from the same things: intimacy, connection, and caring. These are some of the most difficult things you can ask of another human being. But the movie is first and foremost a comedy; that’s what we were trying to bring out in almost every scene.”
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