Love & Other Drugs (2010) is Edward Zwick’s romantic comedy about Viagra, in which Anne Hathaway’s Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal’s pill-selling Jamie agree it’s just sex and then spend two hours proving otherwise.
Most romantic comedies spend an hour working up to the first kiss. Love & Other Drugs gets it over with in the first act, against a kitchen counter, and then has the decency to make it funny. What happens on the first nights Jamie gets Maggie’s number the way Jamie gets everything, by charming a
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If the bedroom scene is the flirt, the loft is the relationship. Red sheets, grey Pittsburgh light, rain on the glass and two people who keep forgetting they agreed not to fall in love. What happens in Maggie’s loft Maggie lives in a warehouse loft full of clutter, art supplies and one big bed made
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Edward Zwick took the most wholesome woman in Hollywood, cast her in a romantic comedy about Viagra and let her keep her clothes off for half of it. This is the scene where Love & Other Drugs stops flirting and starts meaning it. What happens in the bedroom Hathaway plays Maggie Murdock, a sharp, funny
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Take them in order: the first hookup and red-coat topless gag, the late-night bed scene and the red sheets in Maggie’s loft. Hollywood’s most wholesome leading lady turns out to be its funniest in bed, and I say that with enormous respect.