Love and Other Drugs is a 2010 romantic comedy film written and directed by Edward Zwick and based on the non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. The films stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who originally teamed up in Brokeback Mountain. The film was released in the U.S. on November 24, 2010, to mixed reviews from film critics. In 1996, Jamie Randall is fired from a Midwest town's electronics store for having sex with his manager's girlfriend. His wealthy brother Josh announces at the dinner table at their parents' house that he has found... Jamie a job as a pharmaceutical sales representative. After attending a Pfizer training program where he has sex with the instructor , Jamie goes to work for the company and tries to get doctors to prescribe Zoloft and Zithromax. He is rebuffed, much to the dismay of his regional manager, Bruce , who sees Jamie as his ticket to the "big leagues" of Chicago. Bruce says if Jamie can get Dr.
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| Release date: | November 4, 2010 |
| Directed by: | Edward Zwick |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Pieter Jan Brugge, Marshall Herskovitz, Charles Randolph, Scott Stuber, Edward Zwick |
| Editor: | Steven Rosenblum |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | Steven Fierberg |
| Screenplay by: | Marshall Herskovitz, Charles Randolph, Edward Zwick |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman |
| Genre: | Comedy |