Love and Other Drugs

At the beginning of 'Love and Other Drugs' salesman Jake Gyllenhaal loses his retail job and takes a new job as a representative for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. These early scenes are an interesting insight into the industry where company representatives engage in dubious and at times unethical behaviour to get their product favoured by the medical profession. This subject would be worthy of a film of it's own but in this case it gradually fades into the background when Gyllenhaal meets patient Anne Hathaway. From that point the film becomes a typical and predictable romance albeit with an above average amount of naked eye candy.

Another subplot device in which senior citizens are bussed across the border to purchase medication they cannot afford to buy in their home country also makes for an important subject but is portrayed matter-of-factly.

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway make an attractive couple and the film has it's moments but almost every character behaves badly at some point making this a not especially admirable work.