Love and other Drugs

Just yesterday I went to the South bank Cinema to see the movie Love and Other Drugs. it's 1996 and Jamie Randall(jake Gyllenthall) is working in a electronic store which he is talking females into buying phones and stereos and he loses his job after flirting with his owners' girlfriend. Jamie then works for Pfizer who sells Viagra,Zoloft, Zithromax and anti depressant and meets Maggie Murdock(Anne Hathaway)who has Parkinson's and is an alluring free spirit who wont let anyone or anything tie her down and Jamie whose charms serve him with the laides and their relationships takes by surprise as they are under the influence of the main drug-LOVE. It's an Excellent movie with very funny and very sad touching moments.Anne Hathaway is just Excellent as Maggie and Jake Gyllenthall is excellent as Jamie which they previously worked together in Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and excellent acting by Josh Gad who plays Jamie's brother Josh, George Segal and Jill Clayburgh who died in November 2010 from leukemia plays his parents James and Nancy, judy greer plays Cindy, Oliver Platt plays Bruce Jackson who works with jamie, Gabriel macht who plays Trey hannigan and others. It's based on the book "Hard Sell the Evloution of A Viagra Salesman" written by jamie Redy and directed by Edward Zwick who also wrote the screenplay with Charles Randolph and Marshall Herskovitz and prodcued it with RAndolph, Herskovitz, Scott Stuber and Pieter Jan Brugge. it's in the cinemas now and I give it 4 and a half stars

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