Monday, June 08, 2009

Addicted To The Drug Of Love

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway will work together a 2nd time on the film "Love and Other Drugs"says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on Jamie Reidy's nonfiction book "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman:"

Gyllenhaal will play Reidy who was a salesman for Pfizer in the late 1990s who eventually wrote a memoir that shined a light on the practices of the pharmaceutical industry.

Reidy begins a relationship with a woman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (Hathaway) while on one of his sales calls.

Edward Zwick's calling action from a script adapted by Charles Randolph ("The Interpreter)

Shooting kicks off this Fall.

Having a family member living with Parkinson's I have a bit more than A passing interest in this project. Jake and Anne work well together...

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway previously worked together on 2005's "Brokeback Mountain".

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