My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

I'm not sure what to think of this romantic comedy based on the book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy.   I give director Edward Zwick a lot of credit for making this film as entertaining as it is.  But still, watching a drug salesman falling in love with a woman with Parkinson's disease isn't exactly the ingredients for a good time at the theater.  What does work is the casting, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are a wonderful pairing and their intimacy is honest, brave and as engaging as two lovers should be.  I just wish I liked their characters more.  Grade: B-
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