Love and Other Drugs (2010)

Love and Other Drugs is about Jamie, a notorious bachelor with a fascinating charm and gumption. Unfortunately this is also the reason he gets fired... A lot! After one of these firings Jamie's brother suggest a job as a salesman for the medical company Pfizer. Jamie takes the job and while trying to get the doctors to proscribe Zoloft instead of Prozac he meets the patient Maggie. Maggie is a young and free spirited artist suffering from Parkinson. Because of the disease Maggie doesn't want anyone to get close to her, so her and Jamie starts up an emotionless relationship. As you can guess this doesn't hold and sure enough Jamie falls in love with Maggie. This starts a tumble of fitting Maggie, the job and Parkinson's together.

So after watching the trailer I was sure that this would be one of those movies where you'll be rolling on the floor laughing. Then a friend of mine went to see it and told me afterwards that it wasn't so and that she actually found the movie bad. Giving this information I turned my expectations way way down before popping the movie on. This made this movie a good surprise when watching it as i really enjoyed it. However it is NOT a roll-on-the-floor-laughing movie as I originally thought and if my expectations hadn't been on low I would have been very disappointed. Expectations are a pain ha? :P

Anyway I found this movie real as it takes a hold on a taboo most people hardly even realizes exists and yet a lot of people are forced to deal with it everyday. The question about what you would do if you fell in love with someone who has Parkinson or some other incurable disease. 

Honestly I would probably never see this movie again. However giving its theme I will recommend it as a onetime watch. It is a sweet movie and the main question of the movie is still roaming around in my head. Mostly because I myself have no idea what I would do given this specific choice. 

On other notes. This movie reminds me a lot of Autumn in New York (2000) and Sweet November (2001) both movies I adore and recommend. So if you seen these and like them you will definitely like Love and Other Drugs and vise verse. 

The Joneses (2009)

This is the story of a perfect family. Steve and Kate Jones is moving into a nice neighborhood with their 2 children, Jenn and Mick. Right from the beginning they show off their perfect life to everybody. Only thing is, the Jones family isn't real. Instead they are a group of people hired to sell trends in the suburbans.


As you might have guessed the Jones family can't stay perfect as people just ain't perfect. Steve is new to the job and has a really hard time setting off trends, keeping his sales minimized. Also he is in love with Kate. Their boss is after Kate for choosing a "rookie" for such an important job and she is therefor kinda on the line if Steve doesn't improve. Furthermore all the little things of human nature starts tearing up the perfect picture. For instant Jenn is having an affair with a married man and Mick turns out to be gay. Not even close to the picture of a perfect family.

Generally I find the plot extremely well thought and interesting. It attacks the modern problem of all of us wanting something bigger and better than the people next door. And the fact that we can't afford it doesn't seem to stop us. Therefore the idea of a "showroom-family" actually doesn't seem so far off. And with this kind of story line I feel that you get a good sense of the consequences of this type of society where the material things means everything. And also of how money and lies takes lead and ends up destroying all sense of love and friendship. Just because we can't admit that we are in over our head in dept. 

"well who's acting I love this car"