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James must be Edward Zwick's biggest fan. I don't know about the US, but in my neck of the woods he is considered a typical Hollywood hack and films like "Courage Under Fire", "Legends of the Fall" and "The Last Samurai" are viewed as standard, heavy-handed, big-budget melodramas, made to please mainly senior Academy members, not actual movie lovers.

My mind has been repeatedly by this review. I mean, Edward Zwick, Parkinson's and 3 1/2 stars!

Ouch. I haven't seen most of the guy's movies but the ones I have seen (Courage Under Fire, Glory, Blood Diamond) have been at least good. I'll grant you that Love and Other Drugs looks like a nudity-friendly version of Love Story but... hack? That guy who made Daddy Day Care is a typical Hollywood hack.

I just wonder how good a movie can be where all the stars can talk about in the press is the nudity. It seems like a desperate bid for attention. And while I like James' reviews immensely, when there's a beautiful actress naked, his objectivity is somehow...hmm...less than objective on occasion.

Eeek - we are down at 36% and even lower with top critics on Rotten Tomatoe.

This is 1.5 star territory

James - you're a perv

Rob

Those are all great movies IMO. Plus, The Siege is great, Blood Diamond is very good and Glory is his best movie of course and it's one of my all time favorites!

Zwick has always been one of my favorites! Very underrated.

Look forward to this movie.

I think that's a pretty well established fact.

This is a surprisingly enjoyable and deep film. I went expecting fluff and shallow, and although there is more nudity than I expected, I found that it added authenticity and an edge that was great.

Those who gave it less than great reviews didn't "get" it, and most likely have not traveled the road of messing up in life and in relationships, and going inside to find their way to a more fulfilling existence.

I found it funny, real, edgy, deep and thought provoking. All in all, a great relationship film!

It will be in my end-of-the-year Top 10.

I liked that. An unexpected mix of salesman comedy with a bit over the top Parkinson melodrama.
I wonder why so much talk about the nudity, that was very PG-13, haven't people seen Betty Blue or Late Marriage or some other film for adults from a non-Taliban country?

Any time ANY extremely high-profile actress gets naked onscreen the media makes a big deal about it.

But it was mostly strategical 'nudity', a la Austin Powers, and then like Beavis and Butthead used to say, I hate it when they write "nudity" and then it's some guy's butt. They were right, IMHO, there seems to be more appreciation for the male form in the semi-mainstream cinema and then some idiots attack a few unrepentant heterosexual directors, like Verhoeven. Say what you will about Showgirls, it was a feast for the eyes...

Love and Other Drugs, which is a mix between industry satires like Thank You for Smoking with a taste of Kinsey, and a disease of the week movie, and works quite well. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are very good--in fact, these may be their best roles. The disease of the week is Parkinson's, which Hathaway's character has at the age of 27, which is unusually young. We get to see the later stages. If I was Gyllenhaal's character, I'd take my chances.

I give the movie at least a point for handling sexuality well, including nudity by the two leads. (Anne Hathaway nude is worth a point by itself; she's beautiful, head to toe. And a damned good actress whether she's clothed or not.) Gyllenhaal is a super-salesman who tends to lose jobs by screwing every pretty woman in sight, including his boss's girlfriend. He falls into a job as a pharmaceutical rep (which is how he comes in contact with Hathaway), so is the right person in the right place when Pfizer comes up with a blood pressure medicine that has an interesting side effect on male libido. The drug is christened Viagra.

So far, this is my favorite movie of the year.

I was one of the few critics - maybe the only one - to put this on my Top 10 last year. Also, a note about Hathaway: She's a classic example of an actress who has truly grown in talent over the years. When she first got started, she was pretty and bland. And, while her looks have only gotten better, she has worked hard to transform herself into a damn fine actress. If only the same could be said of all the plastic mannequins Disney churns out on a regular basis.

You're right on this one. It falls into the boy wins girl/boy loses girl/boy wins girl back cliche--I don't believe he lost her in the first place. But Gyllenhaal and Hathaway are great. Criminally underrated film.

Hathaway was good even when she did The Princess Diaries. It wasn't obvious because the vehicle was bland. She's been going into edgier fare. She's great here and in Rachel Getting Married.