LOVE & OTHER DRUGS
USA
2010
111 minutes
A womanizing pharmaceutical salesman in it for the money meets a jaded young artist suffering from early symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and they fall head over heels in love. Smart, old-fashioned comedy that twists and updates its standard-issue plot with healthy dollops of sex and wisecracking dialogue, adeptly performed by an excellent cast.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway; Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht, Judy Greer, Jill Clayburgh, George Segal.
Directed by Edward Zwick; produced by Scott Stuber, mr. Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Charles Randolph, Pieter Jan Brugge; screenplay by mr. Randolph, mr. Zwick and mr. Herskovitz, based on the book by Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman; music by James Newton Howard; director of photography (DeLuxe), Steven Fierberg; production designer, Patti Podesta; costume designer, Deborah L. Scott; film editor, Steven Rosenblum.
A Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises presentation of a New Regency/Stuber Pictures/Bedford Falls Company production; made in association with Dune Entertainment. (US distributor and world sales, Twentieth Century-Fox.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Castello Lopes screening room (Lisbon), January 11th 2011.
2010
111 minutes
A womanizing pharmaceutical salesman in it for the money meets a jaded young artist suffering from early symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and they fall head over heels in love. Smart, old-fashioned comedy that twists and updates its standard-issue plot with healthy dollops of sex and wisecracking dialogue, adeptly performed by an excellent cast.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway; Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht, Judy Greer, Jill Clayburgh, George Segal.
Directed by Edward Zwick; produced by Scott Stuber, mr. Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Charles Randolph, Pieter Jan Brugge; screenplay by mr. Randolph, mr. Zwick and mr. Herskovitz, based on the book by Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman; music by James Newton Howard; director of photography (DeLuxe), Steven Fierberg; production designer, Patti Podesta; costume designer, Deborah L. Scott; film editor, Steven Rosenblum.
A Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises presentation of a New Regency/Stuber Pictures/Bedford Falls Company production; made in association with Dune Entertainment. (US distributor and world sales, Twentieth Century-Fox.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Castello Lopes screening room (Lisbon), January 11th 2011.
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