Love & Other Drugs
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| Directed by | Edward Zwick |
| Produced by |
Scott Stuber Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz Charles Randolph Pieter Jan Brugge |
| Screenplay by | Charles Randolph Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz |
| Based on |
Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy |
| Starring |
Jake Gyllenhaal Anne Hathaway |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Steven Fierberg |
| Edited by | Steven Rosenblum |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $102.8 million |
Love & Other Drugs is a 2010 American erotic romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Edward Zwick and based on the non-fiction 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.
In 1996, Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is fired from a Pittsburgh electronics store for having sex with his manager's girlfriend. His wealthy brother Josh (Josh Gad) announces at the dinner table at their parents' (George Segal and Jill Clayburgh) house that he has found Jamie a job as a pharmaceutical sales representative. After attending a Pfizer training program where he has sex with the instructor (Kate Jennings Grant), Jamie goes to work for the company and tries to get doctors to prescribe Zoloft and Zithromax. He is rebuffed, much to the dismay of his regional manager, Bruce (Oliver Platt), who sees Jamie as his ticket to the "big leagues" of Chicago. Bruce says if Jamie can get Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria) to prescribe Zoloft instead of Prozac, other doctors will follow his lead. Jamie tries to get access to Dr. Knight by hitting on his female employees until, exasperated, Dr. Knight unethically permits him to observe him at work, during which time he accidentally sees a disrobing patient, Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway), who suffers from early onset Parkinson's disease.
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