This week the Rave Review sat back and enjoyed a fun romantic comedy called Going The Distance starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. After weeks of previews, we lined it up as our feature film and were not disappointed. Although we felt the film was much more suited to mainstream theaters, we were happy to find it at the Angelika with our more offbeat, left of center movies.
Drew Barrymore is Erin, finishing up a summer internship at a newspaper in New York and getting ready to head back to Stanford where she is finishing her final year. She had already been derailed off the academic track with one bad romance and then meets Garrett (adorable Justin Long). Their instant chemistry consumes them and they eat sleep and breathe each other for 6 weeks until she leaves.
The rest of the movie is an often comedic look at the reality of a long distance relationship. Garrett remains in New York at his job as a band promoter at a record label. Erin struggles through school and part time work while living at her sister’s house (hilarious performance by Christina Applegate).
All of the classic elements are there – Garrett has his two classically wacky friends that help him through his loneliness and Erin has her anal-retentive housewife sister and a gorgeous waiter she works with to help her. There is an excessive amount of swearing – sometimes more than is necessary. It is rated R and runs about 20 minutes longer than it needs to.
None of it is new. None of it is clever. It does prove that with good actors, good writing, great dialogue and an excellent soundtrack – you can successfully entertain!!
We rate this movie a 2 to 3 out of 5.
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