How true is Love and Other Drugs?
The point is: Love and Other Drugs, to some extent or another, is loosely based on a true story, so the fact that it gets everything so impossibly weird and wrong when it had a pretty simple blueprint to follow means that it gets double strikes against it.
Is Love and Other Drugs about Pfizer?
Even though it is based on the book Hard Sell, a tell-all from Pfizer’s former top Viagra salesman, the movie appeared to be a formulaic romantic comedy that ignored author Jamie Riedy’s account of the sleazy side of drug sales industry.
What does Anne Hathaway have in Love and Other Drugs?
In Love and Other Drugs (out Nov. 24), Hathaway plays Maggie, a free spirit who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. The complex character was not what drew her to the role, though.
When did they film Love and Other Drugs?
September 21, 2009
Filming. Principal photography began in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region on September 21, 2009. The city was chosen for its atmosphere, rich medical history, the state’s tax incentive program for film productions, and the area’s experienced crews.
What happened to Maggie in Love and Other Drugs?
Hathaway’s Maggie suffers from early-onset Parkinson’s disease, and has closed her heart to love. There’s not much more to her character probably just because she has the body to shoot sex scenes.
Did Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway go out?
Anne Hathaway vividly recalls the first time she made out with Jake Gyllenhaal: It was on the set of 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain,” in which the actress played the neglected wife to Gyllenhaal’s smitten cowboy, and they were filming a steamy tryst in the back seat of a car.
Did Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway have a relationship?
Though they’re not a couple in real life — Hathaway, 28, has been dating actor Adam Shulman (The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning) for two years, while Gyllenhaal is reportedly seeing singer Taylor Swift (he declines to comment) — they’re one of the more convincing young screen pairings to come along in a while.
Is Anne Hathaway still not drinking?
In 2018, Anne Hathaway decided to stop drinking. The following year, she told Ellen DeGeneres why. “I quit drinking back in October [2018]… for 18 years,” she told the talk show host.
How was Viagra accidentally discovered?
Some ‘very hard erections’ noticed by male patients undergoing clinical trials for a potential heart drug led to the accidental discovery of a drug to cure erectile dysfunction. The story is told by Chemist Sir Simon Campbell and biologist Dr Peter Ellis who both worked on the Pfizer team that co-discovered Viagra.
Do Maggie and Jamie end up together in Love and Other Drugs?
Of course the two of them fall in love. To cap off the end: Jamie lands Viagra and becomes very successful. Maggie decides her sickness will only hold him back, so she breaks up with him.
What did Anne Hathaway say about Taylor Swift?
In a 2015 interview with Glamour UK, Hathaway, who starred alongside Gyllenhaal in the 2010 movie Love & Other Drugs, said she once hung out with Swift around the same time she was linked to Gyllenhaal. “She just seems to be following her heart,” Hathaway said at the time.