Liza (Emily Blunt) is broke, depressed and looking after a sick child. One day she runs into pharmaceutical company exec (Chris Evans) and takes the plunge as a sales rep selling a cancer pain relief drug to doctors. Soon she is raking in it and becomes rich and influential, but is troubled by the strategy of Evans and more particularly their boss Dr Neel (Andy Garcia) in their sales techniques.
Whilst Blunt is impressive and largely holds the film together, the overall effect is remarkably cold and flat and seems to take ages to get through its 2 hour running time. Chris Evans seems to sit at the back appearing occasionally, coming out to scream and shout a lot, whilst Garcia is actually quite good fun as the increasingly crazed, doesn't give a dam boss. Overall this could have been a sharp vicious satire on the value of money over everything else in America's prescription drug market, but instead it's a rather wasted opportunity and a somewhat uninvolving drama.
Whilst Blunt is impressive and largely holds the film together, the overall effect is remarkably cold and flat and seems to take ages to get through its 2 hour running time. Chris Evans seems to sit at the back appearing occasionally, coming out to scream and shout a lot, whilst Garcia is actually quite good fun as the increasingly crazed, doesn't give a dam boss. Overall this could have been a sharp vicious satire on the value of money over everything else in America's prescription drug market, but instead it's a rather wasted opportunity and a somewhat uninvolving drama.