Anne Hathaway: Love And Other Drugs

'To hear it from a trusted research-screening informant, Anne Hathaway's performance as Jake Gyllenhaal's Parkinson's-afflicted love interest in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs is "wonderful, really wonderful...she knocks it out of the park." Hathaway's Love and Other Drugs performance, in short, sounds like the first strong contender for a 2010 Best Actress Oscar.' — Hollywood Elsewhere

I've got a lot of time for Zwick. Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Siege all exhibited solid, artisinal virtues; Blood Diamond and Defiance marked a distinct step-up. He would appear to be on a roll right now. And the last few years at the Oscars have felt terribly boysy. We haven't had a doomed romance since Titanic and we haven't had a good one since The Bridges of Madison County.