Omss-Culture: Culturebox: Emotional Overdose



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movies Emotional Overdose Love and Other Drugs careens from bathos to bromance to naked sexytime. By Dana Stevens Posted Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at 10:05 AM ET One thing I'll say for Love and Other Drugs (20^th Century Fox): It doesn't feel like any other romantic comedy of recent years or, really, any romantic comedy I can think of. Though the film partakes in its share of the genre's cliches (including one character's last-act revelation that he or she truly loves another character after all, and must race across town to find him or her), it rarely inspires a fed-up eye roll. The expression it engenders is more of a quizzical knit brow. What exactly is director and screenwriter Edward Zwick--co-creator of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, whose last film was the WWII thriller Defiance--up to in this combination love story/medical drama/Big Pharma satire/raunchy sex comedy? Careening from bathos to bromance to naked sexytime, the movie is like a mashup of three or four different movies, at least two of them fairly unpleasant. And yet Love and Other Drugs is so sincere and unjaded about its mystifying purpose that it keeps our gaze fixed on the screen for the full two hours. Or maybe that's just Anne Hathaway's nude body. To continue reading, click here. Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate What Happened When Slate Asked a Body-Scanner Executive To Get Scanned The Incredibly Innovative Air Conditioners That Are Selling Like Hotcakes in Saudi Arabia Suze Orman Implores Kardashian Sisters To Stop Hawking Their Sleazy Debit Cards	Advertisement
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movies Emotional Overdose Love and Other Drugs careens from bathos to bromance to naked sexytime. By Dana Stevens Posted Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at 10:05 AM ET One thing I'll say for Love and Other Drugs (20^th Century Fox): It doesn't feel like any other romantic comedy of recent years or, really, any romantic comedy I can think of. Though the film partakes in its share of the genre's cliches (including one character's last-act revelation that he or she truly loves another character after all, and must race across town to find him or her), it rarely inspires a fed-up eye roll. The expression it engenders is more of a quizzical knit brow. What exactly is director and screenwriter Edward Zwick--co-creator of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, whose last film was the WWII thriller Defiance--up to in this combination love story/medical drama/Big Pharma satire/raunchy sex comedy? Careening from bathos to bromance to naked sexytime, the movie is like a mashup of three or four different movies, at least two of them fairly unpleasant. And yet Love and Other Drugs is so sincere and unjaded about its mystifying purpose that it keeps our gaze fixed on the screen for the full two hours. Or maybe that's just Anne Hathaway's nude body. To continue reading, click here. Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate What Happened When Slate Asked a Body-Scanner Executive To Get Scanned The Incredibly Innovative Air Conditioners That Are Selling Like Hotcakes in Saudi Arabia Suze Orman Implores Kardashian Sisters To Stop Hawking Their Sleazy Debit Cards	Advertisement
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Culturebox: Emotional Overdose

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