Update: The trailer has now landed for the film and it looks….pretty ordinary. That said, the lengthy trailer completely sticks with the rom-com angle (including the poor man’s Jonah Hill sidekick role played by Josh Gad) and doesn’t bother to mention anything about the dramatic Parkinson’s disease subplot. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway look perfectly serviceable in their parts, but Hathaway for an Oscar nod? We don’t quite believe it just yet.
A first look from Ed Zwick’s much-buzzed rom-com “Love And Other Drugs,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, their first teaming since 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain,” has been unveiled courtesy of two sources. One from Entertainment Weekly‘s new fall preview (not online yet, thanks much to the reader for the scans) and another from Entertainment Tonight, complete with their beloved interrupting voice-overs.
Based on Jamie Reidy’s nonfiction book, “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,” the story centers on a lothario salesman (Gyllenhaal) who begins a relationship with a woman who has Parkinson’s (Hathaway) while on one of his sales calls, with their love story playing out in the political and social context of the ’90s. Gabriel Macht, Judy Greer, Oliver Platt, Josh Gad and Hank Azaria co-star.
It definitely looks like unique, entertaining roles for the leads with much of the film’s award season buzz aiming at Hathaway’s performance as the Parkinson’s sufferer, an aspect of her character blatantly absent from this preview. “[She] really knocks it out of the park. She’s amazing, wonderful,” a trusted reader wrote to Hollywood Elsewhere. “The core of the romance is Jake’s overcoming his shallow relationship history, and Anne overcoming her emotionally aloof thing. And she’s really wonderful, absolutely wonderful.”
A full, extended trailer will reportedly screen in theaters this weekend with the film slated to open November 24th.