Love & Other Drugs written and directed by Edward Zwick is a romantic comedy that had two Golden Globe nominations in 2011, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Anne Hathaway, nevertheless, it is not an outstanding feature – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my resplendent macaws

 

Love & Other Drugs written and directed by Edward Zwick is a romantic comedy that had two Golden Globe nominations in 2011, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Anne Hathaway, nevertheless, it is not an outstanding feature – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my resplendent macaws

 

7 out of 10

 

I like Jake Gyllenhaal, best known perhaps for Brokeback Mountain https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/02/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx.html and I am also a fan of his sister, Maggie, her reading of The Bell Jar is one of the best performances in audiobooks that I know of

 

Nevertheless, Love & Other Drugs is not outstanding, although it is not bad either, maybe a pleasant entertainment, despite the fact that the leads have both been nominated for the Golden Globes for Best Actor and Actress respectively, and the rather unimpressive Metascore, which is just 55 out of 100, in the yellow, warning zone

I was wondering if there is chemistry between the two protagonists, and I think there is some magic, anyway, we see the naked, beautiful young woman having sex, well, both lovers, in various settings, Maggie Murdock is portrayed by Anne Hathaway https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/rachel-getting-married-written-by-jenny.html

 

She has won the Oscar for her supporting role in the adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables – I think it is the most recent, there are maybe more than ten in all – for various reasons, she was not a popular thespian, I wonder where she stands now, she is one of the cast of the recently released and impressive Odyssey

Anne Hathaway is Penelope, and I just checked, the feature is now the 59th top rated movie, the Metascore is 89, analysts say it is on track to pass the one billion dollars mark at the box office, despite the fact that The Economist calls is a silly movie… https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/diary-of-mad-diva-by-joan-rivers.html

 

In the outrageous, but funny Diary of A Mad Diva Joan Rivers is very harsh on Anne Hathaway, and indeed, I now remember the excruciating Oscar Ceremony, where she was a host with a male partner, I have forgotten who it was, for good reason, it was a shambles…back to Love & Other Drugs, I will just repeat that it is nice, but not fabulous

Still, this is supposed to be a comedy, and if ‘romantic’, I am not sure where the supposed humor was…oh, yes, here is a sample – Jamie aka Jake Gyllenhaal is talking about this young attractive woman, passing by, he calls her Jennie, I think, and explains to his colleague that he does not know her name, and keeps saying Jennie

 

He is something of a Casanova https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/memoirs-of-casanova-by-giacomo-casanova.html and the point is that this Galatea will eventually come to him, and state her correct name, is this jocular, amusing, I am tempted to quote Groucho Marx, who exited a party saying: ‘thank you, I had a wonderful time, only not this time’

 

 

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