By Emma Krasov
Jake Gyllenhaal as a pleasure-chasing lover boy – say no more. The movie could be a [generic] version of Sidney Pollack’s long-forgotten Bobby Deerfield or Arthur Hiller’s iconic Love Story – it’s doomed to succeed with the audiences of holiday-high Cinderellas. Love and Other Drugs, based on Jamie Reidy’s non-fiction, “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,” and directed by Edward Zwick, follows Jamie (Gyllenhaal), a good-looking pharmaceutical sales ace as he gradually falls in love with an incurable (and also good-looking and living in an artsy loft) Parkinson’s patient Maggie (Anne Hathaway). Despite the predictability of the scheme – boy meets girl boy looses girl boy gets girl back, and the undying cliché of public display of deep emotions in moments of revelation and redemption, the script is nicely written and keeps the tempo, while the excellent cast of supporting characters really supports the entire structure from falling into a sentimental mush. Great acting, some humor, more than average Hollywood nudity, and a probable tear or two closer to the happy end all bode well for the run. In Bay Area theatres now. More info at: www.loveandotherdrugsthemovie.com
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