Love & Other Drugs
Love amp Other Drugs is a 2010 American erotic romantic comedydrama film written and directed by Edward Zwick and based on the nonfiction book Hard Sell The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who originally starred together in Brokeback Mountain. The film was released in the United States on November 25, 2010, and received mixed reviews from film critics.
Jamie angles a date with Maggie, who has sex with him. Jamie is later beaten up by topselling Prozac rep Trey Hannigan Gabriel Macht, one of Maggies exlovers, 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 Maggies apartment. One night, he tells Maggie that he loves herthe first time he has ever said that to anyoneand 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 recorded. Jamie asks her to go to a Chicago medical conference with him. She ends up at a Parkinsons 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. ........
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