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The Academy Awards are always much more fun if we have a horse in the race and, if early buzz holds, we should. Maybe more than one, in fact.
Anne Hathaway is being touted as a possible actress nominee for "Love & Other Drugs," filmed in Pittsburgh last fall and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a Pfizer pharmaceutical rep.
Edward Zwick directed the movie, set in 1997, and wrote the screenplay with Charles Randolph and Marshall Herskovitz. It's based on Jamie Reidy's real-life book, "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman," but the story has been fictionalized.
Hathaway is an artist in the early stages of young onset Parkinson's disease (ding ding ding, instant Oscar attention) while Josh Gad is Jamie's successful entrepreneur brother; George Segal and Jill Clayburgh are the men's Chicago parents; Oliver Platt is Jamie's district manager; and Gabriel Macht, a rival drug rep.
The little you see of Pittsburgh in the trailer looks fabulous.
Hathaway is no stranger to the awards circuit, having been nominated for "Rachel Getting Married," while Gyllenhaal was in the supporting race for "Brokeback Mountain." Zwick shared in the best picture Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love" and was nominated as part of the team for "Traffic."
Industry expert Anne Thompson reports Twentieth Century Fox is planning an awards-campaign for "Love and Other Drugs." She also has a link on her blog to the trailer:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/08/15/trailer_and_awards_watch_love_and_other_drugs/
In its fall preview, Entertainment Weekly also singles out the movie. "Love & Other Drugs" is scheduled to open Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving, which is prime moviegoing time.
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