Love and Other Drugs: DON'T SEE IT!

Well, it was a rainy afternoon and we got sucked in by the trailers on TV, thinking this movie would be a funny and different romantic comedy.  Boy, were we wrong.  Right  from the start, it bored you, from the opening scene, like most of the movie, a cliche, with the two brothers, one successful, the other just having lost his job.  Of course, he then becomes a drug salesman, using his powers of seduction, to seduce doctors and receptionists, to peddle his wares.  On the way, he happens upon Anne Hathaway, an artiste, of course, in the trendy loft apartment, and she just happens to like sex, lots of it, with Jake.  It's as if the filmmaker could not think of anything to do other than film them screwing.  O, yes, I forgot about the idiot brother, a loser, like George in Seinfeld, only not funny, egregiously gross, to the point where you wondered how the filmmaker could think it was funny.  Without him and his antics, the movie might have been palatable...maybe.  O, yea, Anne has Parkinson's disease, incurable, and Jake eventually must decide whether he can love a women with this illness, or take the 'dream job' in Chicago, live the cool life, and be successful.  Of course, he just happened to meet the husband of a women who had had Parkinson's for years...his advice, ditch her while you can.  This of course lengthened the movie, unbearably long as it was, as he had to fight his guilt and conscience  Eventually, the good little angel surfaces and he flags down her bus (she accompanies elderly to Canada to buy drugs), like Dustin Hoffmann in The Graduate or  Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentlemen.  All's well that ends well, as they live happily every after in their loft, drinking wine, hugging, kissing, and of course, screwing. I looked at my watch an hour into it and could not believe we had another hour.  We had no interest in the characters and the only thing I wondered is if Hathaway would die in the end.  Fortunately, she didn't, so I did not throw the shoe in disgust,  At least the filmmaker had some scruples.  Don't see it!