"Love & Other Drugs" is a messy, ambitious movie. It exposes the flaw in the modern romantic comedy formula by injecting real stakes (Parkinson’s disease) into a genre usually reserved for light misunderstandings.
The film stars Jamie Randall (Gyllenhaal), a charming but directionless viagra salesman in the late 1990s, and Maggie Murdock (Hathaway), a free-spirited woman with early-onset Parkinson’s disease. Their relationship begins as a transactional fling—sex without strings—but inevitably deepens into something terrifyingly real. index of love and other drugs