Anne Hathaway for me was a promising actress, with films Rachel Getting Married and Brokeback Mountain but now I feel she has done too much too soon. With silly films like Get Smart and Princess Diaries its all too much and now she just comes across as annoying on screen. Love and Other Drugs follows the relationship between two people who each refuse to be tied down. Jake Gyllenhall is very funny and sweet in this film and gives a loving performance yet Hathaway who plays a character of twenty six years old with Parkinson's. Gyllenhall, a salesman, finds it hard to say good-bye to her so instead they both enter into a relationship. This film holds more sex than Sex and the City. What is it with rom-coms at the moment, Friends with Benefits, No Strings Attached and then this film, they all hold so much sex, which can take away from the depth of the character, yet here I think it was done carefully and do you understand the emotional strain on both characters. One very poignant element of the film was when Jamie (Gyllenhall) goes on the hunt for a cure for Maggie (Hathaway) and after countless meetings with doctors all over America, Maggie comes to the conclusion that he can only really love her if she is cured. That is extremely sad as nothing in this life will ever be perfect and sometimes the imperfection in things can make them see so much more desirable.
I really enjoyed this film, it was very funny and very moving at the same time, Hathaway wasn't her best in this film but Gyllenhall really stepped up to the plate and gave a brilliant performance, his deliverance of comedic lines was right on target. I would definitely watch this again, however both of them got nominated for Golden Globes for their performances, I wouldn't go that far...
'Sometimes the things you want the most don't happen and what you least expect happens. I don't know - you meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet that one person and your life is changed.'
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