Movie Review: “Love and Other Drugs”
Oh I really liked this one. Jamie Randall starts a new job at Pfizer as a road salesman, a very promising one. The guy is a ladies man, always have been and for sure always will be.
He meets Maggie, a young woman who suffers from Parkinson’s disease at her very young age. The movie first leads us to what most of men first want from a woman, SEX, and Jamie Randall is the guy for that as he always gets what he wants, at least with women. The thing is that he finds someone just like him, Maggie.
The movie then takes us to a story where we see on one side Jamie trying to climb up the ladder on the business of selling meds to doctor and on the other side, his “so-called” relationship with Maggie and dealing with her disease.
With a gentle touch this shows us what Parkinson’s disease is, but without getting us to the “I want to kill myself” feeling because it is not entirely based on what the disease is, but its still the pretty much the center of the movie.
I cant really tell what I didn’t like of the movie. I would have liked it to show a bit more of the disease for those who don’t know it, but still it leaves us a nice message that I will surely keep.


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