Love & Other Drugs
Love & Other Drugs is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film directed, produced and co-written by Edward Zwick and based on Jamie Reidy's 2005 non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad and Gabriel Macht, the film tells the story of a medicine peddler in 1990s Pittsburgh who starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from an illness that leads to Parkinson's disease.
Plot
In 1996, womanizer Jamie Randall is fired from a Pittsburgh electronics store for having sex with his manager's girlfriend. His wealthy brother, Josh, refers him for a job as a pharmaceutical sales representative.
Cast
- Anne Hathaway
- Constance Brenneman
- Gabriel Macht
- George Segal
- Hank Azaria
- Ian Harding
- Jaimie Alexander
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Jill Clayburgh
- Josh Gad
- Judy Greer
- Kate Jennings Grant
- Katheryn Winnick
- Kimberly Scott
- Michael Chernus
- Natalie Gold
- Nikki DeLoach
- Oliver Platt
- Peter Friedman
- Scott Cohen
- Vanessa Aspillaga
More details
| author | Charles Randolph Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Edward Zwick |
| editor | Steven Rosenblum |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | bus stop casual sex erectile dysfunction flirt medical tourism obtain cheap prescription drugs pack parkinson's disease pfizer pharmaceutical sales representative priapism promiscuity prozac senior citizen side effect support group talk threesome train university of pittsburgh school of medicine viagra videotape recorder womanizer zoloft |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard |
| producer | Charles Randolph Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz Pieter Jan Brugge Scott Stuber |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Pittsburgh |
| theme | romantic comedy |