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Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Elicit Double Rainbow Dry Heaves

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (37)

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Below is the completely uninspiring trailer for Love & Other Drugs, a romantic comedy that stars Jake Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. It’s as unremarkable a trailer as you’ll likely see. It doesn’t provide much reason to see the movie, even if you are fans of the two leads. In fact, watching it, I wasn’t even sure what it was about, until I read the synopsis, which literally made me physically guffaw and gag simultaneously. A gaguffaw. Needless to say, I wound up with oatmeal in my nose. Seriously, check out this synopsis, and ask yourself who the hell writes these things?


Anne Hathaway portrays Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won’t let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie’s evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

Now, here’s the trailer.









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Comments

Love is the "ultimate drug"?

Man, I've wasted a lot of money.

Posted by: clocker at August 16, 2010 11:00 AM

No. No, I won't watch that trailer. That synopsis was an affront to humanity. Whoever wrote that should be tortured while forced to watch every rom-com trash ever offered to the general public. It's the only way they can even begin to empathize with our pain.

Posted by: Kaleena at August 16, 2010 11:08 AM

Where are all these free-spirited women just waiting for the right charming guy to bring them into the fold of domesticity? Oh, right, we're talking romantic comedy...no grounds in reality AT ALL.

All the free-spirited/strong independent/never will be tied down women I know? They could spot charm from a mile away and it worked about as well as a sleazy pickup line in a bar.

So rom-com free spirits must be a little bit dim, is my conclusion.

Posted by: Wednesday at August 16, 2010 11:09 AM

It looks cute.

Sorry, my life is not going well enough today to engage my fucking hipster.

Posted by: twig at August 16, 2010 11:11 AM

does this movie take place in the mid-90's? i can't watch the trailer from work (thankfully) but the pic looks like something straight out of a 1994 julia roberts movie! that hair... that sweater.... that's supposed to be a "free spirit"? i went to college with that girl 15 years ago and she sucked even then!!!

Posted by: glittergirl1970 at August 16, 2010 11:16 AM

@twig - I'm with you. The description is trite nonsense, but the trailer gave me the warm and fuzzies. Can't help it - love both of them and with them in the leads it's already better than 95% of rom coms. I'm in.

Posted by: Nicole at August 16, 2010 11:17 AM

Oh for fuck's sake!

There you have it ladies, keep looking out for the one who is a shallow bastard and you can probably change him into a nice human being.

Here endeth the Hollywood lesson.

Posted by: Simon at August 16, 2010 11:19 AM

@twig/nicole - another second from me. my love of anne and jake win over my inner snark this morning.

Posted by: devo at August 16, 2010 11:24 AM

That summary completely missed the "edgy" element. Anne's character has a disease! That explains it all...she's ready to indulge her inner slut because this is her last chance. Hey, isn't every woman looking for just that excuse? Eat? Pray? Love? Seems Julia got it very wrong. Hell no, just screw. Let me guess, they wind up reeeally falling in love and now she doen't want to "hold him back." I'm crying already, it's just so sad and unexpected.

This is the ultimate battle between the big eyed gazes. Throw in Zooey Deschanel and they'd have had the trifecta. But they missed their chance...Zooey's too smart for them.

I hear there is plenty of T&A. Yay for DVD's.

Posted by: SittingPat at August 16, 2010 11:28 AM

Alright, I will admit it. Usually I am target audience for stupid romcoms. I like the fluff, I like the unrealistic crap of it all. And even I won't watch this.

She finds out he had no business in that exam room where she got topless, beats him (rightfully), and then immediately goes out with him for coffee and sex?

Eff you, Hollywood.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at August 16, 2010 11:29 AM

The cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales? Cool?

Posted by: valerie at August 16, 2010 11:35 AM

I'm offended by the implied nudity when we know for a fact that there will be none. You want to make rom-coms better? Go for the hard R.

Posted by: admin at August 16, 2010 11:37 AM

What's up with the writers. Did they think that "Pizza Delivery Guy" or "Cable man" was too unbelievable?

Posted by: Uncle JR at August 16, 2010 11:39 AM

OK, I guess I have to look at this.

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Ugh.

Posted by: , at August 16, 2010 11:39 AM

I wanted to hate it after the ridonkulous gaggariffic synopsis and I did hate the first little bit of the trailer, but then by the end I was smiling. WTF? I don't know, maybe I've got a hormonal issue. I'm going to go punch a puppy now.

Posted by: pickled tink at August 16, 2010 11:44 AM

I actually read about what this film REALLY is about before seeing the trailer. Now I'm confused as this trailer is complete sh#t and predictable rom-com. This film is much darker, edgier than this asinine trailer leads you to believe.

Things that make you go hmmmm.

Posted by: Corey at August 16, 2010 11:45 AM

KIDDING. No puppies will be injured in any way.

Posted by: pickled tink at August 16, 2010 11:45 AM

Oh! Now I know why this feels weird. I forgot Anne and Jake were married in Brokeback Mountain. What a difference a few years makes to their taste in their own movies.

Posted by: valerie at August 16, 2010 12:04 PM

Apparently an incestuous cousin of the earlier trailer today for "The Romantics". Please, go to hell and take all your same looking/sounding/acting cohorts with you.

Posted by: Ducky at August 16, 2010 12:06 PM

The sypnosis discouraged me from further brain
fuck.

She's a free spirit indeed, so basically the challege will be watching her fall in love and settle down against her better judgement whilst working in the dog eat dog world of pharmaceutical sales. Intriguing!

Posted by: Jean at August 16, 2010 12:32 PM

I will watch this when it appears on cable a couple months after its release. I like the leads well enough, and they're easy on the eyeballs. Rom Coms never get my in theatre dollars, though. Not enough difference between them to make it worth the cash.

Posted by: Reba at August 16, 2010 12:32 PM

It's got to be better than it seems. Gyllenhaal and Oliver Platt wouldn't do this, would they? Judy Geer, Hank Azaria, even Anne Hathaway can do better. It's got to be better than it looks. I mean, it's about a Viagra salesman in the early days of said drug...so much potential for hilarity going untapped in the trailer. I'm hoping it's a bad slice.

Have to say though, I'm impressed with the usually sweet and charming Gyllenhaal's transformation to repugnant skeeviness.

Posted by: rebecca h. at August 16, 2010 1:29 PM

If only this was based on her character's memoirs, more people would be willing to give it a chance.

Haters.

Posted by: Fredo at August 16, 2010 1:46 PM

Pfft, I can't even be arsed to watch the trailer. Pharmaceutical sales? Have they run out of "sexy" jobs for rom com characters?! What's next? A particle physicist? Oh wait...that's actually sexy.

Posted by: Joker at August 16, 2010 2:18 PM

Anne Hathaway portrays Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won’t let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales.

Sounds to me like Jamie's ultimate drug is rohypnol.

Posted by: chub at August 16, 2010 2:28 PM

I like the two leads, so I thought this looked better than any of the other similar looking trailers I’ve seen in a long time. Also, it’s a pretty smart movie and I wouldn’t call it a rom-com necessarily, and yeah, plenty of AH’s boobs.

Posted by: Harry Coverts at August 16, 2010 3:34 PM

This movie could be improved by a dead guy in a rabbit suit. I mean, they already have Donnie, and they appear to have Sparkle Motion...

Posted by: sheshakes at August 16, 2010 4:12 PM

@Nicole, I am with you on this one. I love Anne H and feel like I should watch this out of support for her career. Even if it is the same stupid plot in every stupid rom com, and he apparently lives with the same slob roommate from Going the Distance.

Maybe I'm especially pissed because I just watched Out of Africa, which is like the gender-reversed version with added British imperialism. When a woman falls for a free spirited man, it does not result in adorable hi-jinks, but *spoiler* conflict and a plane crash. Can't be tamed!

Posted by: Empress of All the Russias at August 16, 2010 4:51 PM

Their relationship made more sense in "Brokeback Mountain".

Posted by: greer at August 16, 2010 5:27 PM

Hmmmmm. There is a split-second shot when they're in bed and she reaches her arm over him. It's a gesture you would typically see from the guy in the trailer and I'm suddenly interested.

Can an instant make we want to see the rest of the trailer? Apparently, yes.

Posted by: Hayden Tompkins at August 16, 2010 6:03 PM

"Their relationship made more sense in "Brokeback Mountain".

Posted by: greer at August 16, 2010 5:27 PM"

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I find her to be such a Muppet.

Posted by: samantha t at August 16, 2010 6:33 PM

Is it okay if I rent the movie after it comes out, and watch the entire thing on "mute" just for the pretty?

Posted by: Jerce at August 16, 2010 7:47 PM

Ha, if you just glance at the picture of the two of them too fast AH totally looks like Julia Roberts circa The Pretty Woman years.

Posted by: Sar at August 16, 2010 9:59 PM

Goddammm... that synopsis could have been written by one of our new and improved spambots. In fact, it may have written the whole movie. Gag indeed.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 16, 2010 11:32 PM

Check out the revamped 2nd trailer. It hints at what I was talking about. This is going to be MUCH better than this 1st trailer implies.

Posted by: Corey at August 17, 2010 2:45 PM

Call me crazy, but I think this looks totally decent and I hate 99.99% of romantic comedies. I love the leads and it's about the release of freaking VIAGRA into the pharmaceutical market! How bad can it be!? I'm in, maybe not in theaters, but I will definitely rent.

Posted by: tt_marie at August 17, 2010 5:35 PM

I do not think I have seen this said that way before. You actually have clarified this for me. Thanks!

Posted by: Alexander Vanhise at December 15, 2010 1:47 PM