By producing and starring in a movie called Pharm Girl. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Reese would portray a woman who rises to the top of a pharmaceutical powerhouse while dealing with the ugly underbelly of the industry along the way. It’s gonna be one of those dark comedies, done by the same guys who did Bad Santa. Sounds intriguing. But wait a minute … didn’t I just report that Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese’s real-life love, is doing a movie with Anne Hathaway in which he plays a cynical pharmaceutical sales rep? What’s the haps, kids? Looking to fight the big, bad drug machine together?
This just reminds me of some stellar movies about drugs. Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic is definitely one of the best, since it deals with all angles – the taking, the selling and the policing. Then there are the ones you see once – and don’t really want to see again because it’s just too hard, such as Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream. Then there’s the really bizarre like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Alice in Wonderland. Come on, like Lewis Carroll wasn’t thwacked out of his mind when he wrote that and wanted to share his visions. Like The Beatles when they wrote “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” I digress.
My favorite drug movie has to be Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy, with excellent performances by Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch, and introducing a doomed young Heather Graham. Check out the original trailer:
Now, where are those pills of mine …