Love and Other Drugs (2010)

Original title

Love & Other Drugs

Directed by

Edward Zwick

Genre

romantic comedy, comedy drama, period film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5,648 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A charming salesman in the 1990s sells Viagra for a living. He falls into a casual relationship with a young woman who has Parkinson's disease, and their connection deepens over time.

romanticbittersweetwittyearthysadplayfullight-hearted

What happens

Love & Other Drugs is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film directed, produced and co-written by Edward Zwick and based on Jamie Reidy's 2005 non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad and Gabriel Macht, the film tells the story of a medicine peddler in 1990s Pittsburgh who starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from Parkinson's disease. Love & Other Drugs premiered at the AFI Fest on November 4, 2010 and was released in theaters on November 24, 2010, by 20th Century Fox. It grossed $105 million against a $30 million budget, and received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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