Going the Distance

Plot synopsis:
Erin Langford (Drew Barrymore) is a 31-year-old woman who is having trouble pacing her life. She is still in grad school and she recently got a job as a summer intern at a newspaper in New York. While out with a friend at a bar, she meets Garrett (Justin Long), who interrupts her game of Centipede. The two then drink together and end up at his place, where they smoke from a bong and have sex while Garrett's roommate Dan (Charlie Day) "DJs their hook up". The next morning, Erin is anxious to leave but Garrett asks her to have breakfast with him and she agrees. She then tells him that she is only in New York for six weeks and is not looking for a relationship. He agrees to keep things casual.
Erin and Garrett start having a fling, but they soon develop feelings for each other, and Erin tries to convince her boss to find her a permanent position. Before the end of her internship, she writes a well-received article, and her boss asks her to contact him in January regarding possible job openings. Meanwhile, Garrett, who works at a record label, is given an assignment to manage a band he does not like, and is starting to dislike his job.
They both continue with their fling, but when the six weeks are up they find it difficult to let go. After Garrett drives Erin to the airport they say goodbye, but just as Erin is about to leave Garrett runs after her and tells her that he is crazy about her and wants to have a long-distance relationship with her. She agrees.
Over the next couple of months Erin and Garrett spend all their free time texting and calling one another trying to work out times when one of them can fly in. Garrett surprises Erin by showing up on Thanksgiving and they have a very emotional reunion. When they go to Erin's sister Corrine's house (where Erin is currently staying), they start to have passionate sex on the dining table while, unbeknownst to them, Erin's brother-in-law, Phil, is having dinner. Corrine eventually walks in and there is an awkward moment. The next day, Erin and Garrett are out to see The Boxer Rebellion, and they agree that the band is good. Garrett gets jealous when he sees that Erin is friends with Damon, a handsome bartender who works with her. Garrett eventually has to leave and goes back to New York.
In January, Erin calls her summer internship boss and asks him about the possibility of a job. Her boss tells her they are not hiring—that in fact they have just laid off 100 employees. Not finding comfort in a phone conversation with Garrett, she goes and gets drunk with Damon and almost kisses him, but ends up going home. Later, her professor mentions that he recommended her for a position at the San Francisco Chronicle and she goes for an interview. Meanwhile, Garrett tries to have phone sex with Erin, but it does not go well.
A month later as Erin is packing to go to New York she gets a call from the Chronicle letting her know that she is hired. She goes to New York and tells Garrett, and the two have a fight. The next day they make up and he asks her to make the decision whether or not to accept the job. A week later he calls her and tells her he wants her to move to New York so that they can live together and start fresh. She agrees and he goes to San Francisco to sort things out. However, after a conversation with Corrine, Garrett realizes that he cannot be the reason that Erin turns down the job and the two part ways after an emotional conversation and a long hug in the airport.
Six months later Erin is doing well with her career, having written her first front page story, and Garrett has not been with any woman since Erin. He quits his job and starts managing The Boxer Rebellion, the first band he and Erin saw together. He sends Erin tickets to their show and she goes, not knowing that he is the manager. She runs into him there and he tells her he has moved to Los Angeles. Since that is only a few hours away from San Francisco, they have another chance at a relationship. Late that night they go back to Corrine's house, and interrupt Corrine and Phil dry humping on the dining-room table (like Garrett and Erin earlier in the film). The film ends with Erin's niece, Maya, descending from upstairs during the awkward moment, and they all scream "Maya! Statue!" (a running joke where Corrine always yells "Maya! Statue!" at her daughter to quiet her and make her stop moving around).

Tags: comedy, humor, boring, romantic

Review:
But Garrett's eccentric roommate Dan (Charlie Day) and Erin's sister's personality quirks add real spice to most scenes, and the very real chemistry between the main characters (Barrymore and Long have had a real life on-off-on relationship) transcends the simplicity and makes Going the Distance something more.Barrymore, as always, is capable, and her innate sweetness shines out from the screen.
But what made it a good movie was the fact that, for all the genuine laughs, it quite simply rang true.POLITICAL NOTES: None.FAMILY SUITABILITY: Going the Distance is rated R for "sexual content including dialogue, language throughout, some drug use and brief nudity." While this is not a movie for small children, the tenderness with which the central relationship is played and the integrity and genuine caring portrayed by each half of the central couple wouldn't be a bad lesson for teens to learn.
I saw the trailer for this movie before going to see it and I thought it looked good, but far too often with this type of film, all the best bits are in the trailer.
Going the Distance: Good for the Guys Too. This is one of the most real AND funny Rom/Com's that have come out of this stale city in quite some time.
It's just how life happens!I've seen this movie and can contest that it is the perfect concoction of humor, fun, romantic moments and hard R moments to make it a good fit for most couples.
Justin Long and Drew Barrymore play the two main characters who begin a no strings attached relationship, but end up falling in love despite the fact that Drew's character, Erin, is moving from New York to San Francisco.
Justin Long is Garrett, a guy who works in New York for a record label and who isn't looking for a serious relationship with Erin because he knows she is going to leave soon, but their friendship grows and love blossoms.
The chemistry between Barrymore and Long is good and the screenplay has several funny moments, but at the end of the film you realize you have already seen this movie before since it ends up being pretty predictable.
For people who have gone through long distance relationships and its struggles, then they may feel drawn towards it and identify with some of the things happening, but as a comedy I was expecting a little more.http://estebueno10.blogspot.com/.
It's not the type of film that will have lots of complicated twists and turns, so in that context it's fairly predictable, but it's really well acted by the main characters, particularly Justin Long, Drew Barrymore and Christin Applegate.
Going the Distance is a very enjoyable honest romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long.
Just watched this romantic comedy starring sometime off-screen couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long.
Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have real chemistry, making it seem fairly romantic, and Long and his friends are actually very funny men, making the film come across as more funny and less not-funny.I generally really like films picking simple stories and just telling them straight.
It is laugh-out-loud funny in places, and now, I am even more of a believer that Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day are very much underrated, great comedic actors.
Good jokes, hilarious situations, and a bit of lavatorial (literally) humour, all tossed with realistic, three-dimensional roles is a recipe for a more than average romantic comedy (and funny at that for a change!).
Erin (Barrymore) and Garrett (Long) enjoy a summer fling that turns into more than a fling, but now they have to settle for a long distance relationship.Here's the thing: there were a lot of very good funny lines in here and if they kept the F-bombs and other smutty language out of it, this would have become, with a major exception, a very funny film you could share with your grandparents.
The draw of Going the Distance will undoubtedly be its leading stars of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore, being an on-off-on real life couple and the premise of a long distance relationship will likely not be lost on these two.
See, I told you Going the Distance casts doubts despite its comedy at the right places to lift the film from its doom and gloom, nevermind if director Nanette Burstein manages to hook you in and convince you to root for the leads Erin (Barrymore) a soon to graduate journalist intern, and Garrett (Long) the record label employee told to babysit and promote some young kids band whom the record company is hoping to be the next Jonah Brothers.
Co- stars Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as best friends of Garrett also help to Unfortunately with this film being the typical Hollywood rom-com means the sticking to an expected feel good formula, as well as just scratching the surface of the issues it raises for the most parts.Such as the deliberate crafting of their occupations, where making fleeting and sweeping statements of the state of the music and newspaper industry wasn't minced, and you get periodic reminders of it.
There is a level of chemistry that is obvious at points but the script clearly lets them down, with it being overworked and clumsy in parts.Sadly this offers nothing new at all nor a fresh approach such as seen with The Proposal last year, I would recommend avoiding unless you really want to spend 90 minutes looking at your watch wondering when it is going to end..
The only character that we really felt was doing a good job was the actress Christina Applegate who played Drew's sister.This movie had a reasonable plot and story line which could have been developed further and more completely.
Jason Sudeikis wasn't funny either, more creepy in this film.Going the distance is filled with more sexual jokes, crude humour than most rom-com's.
With Drew Barrymore and Christina Applegate, I was expecting a good movie ...
It's just my opinion but what was wrong with this film was the following, I like Drew Barrymore but she's getting too old for these roles, she looked like Justin Long's mum at times.
But it does make sense, because their chemistry is really good and one of the more positive aspects of the movie.Other than that we have great cameos (like Jim Gaffigans intro, though you might have seen it in the trailer) and very nice scenes overall.
Not that it will matter to the group of people it is aiming at, but some things seem awfully wrong at times.Still one of the better Rom-Com's of recent years and hats off for going R-Rated rather than making it (completely) sweet and cute.
Going the DistanceThanks to technology, you can meet, date and dump a person without ever having met him or her in person.However, the newly dating and distantly challenged couple in this romantic-comedy would rather the face-to-face.When record label scout Garrett (Justin Long) fortuitously encounters Erin (Drew Barrymore), an intern at the local paper, in a New York bar, he and his two friends (Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day) instantly take a shine to her.Turning their one-night stand into a "thing", all are grief-stricken when Erin must return to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree.To ease their pain, they decide that it would be a good idea to continue their affair far away from each other.Containing keen observations on the subject, and a seminal comedic performance from Charlie Day, Going the Distance works.Now, if there was only a way you could continue a long deceased relationship.
Drew Barrymore & Justin Long share good chemistry and this makes the movie engaging.
But all in all, it was working well enough."Going the Distance" differs from so many other romantic comedies, and it has a somewhat deeper level to it and more aspects to its story and plot line.
In some ways describing this film as a romcom is misleading there is indeed rom and a great deal of com but for a lot of men the word drips with sentimentality whereas a lot of Going the Distance is a far broader comedy.
The guys as a sort of chorus is funny as is the steely persona of Christina Applegate, but for me it is drew who carries it,she makes you laugh a lot out loud,she is a good physical comic,watch out for her drunk in a bar- and she carries you through the occasional longueurs of the film.
Which is the most positive aspect of this movie, cause a lot of people that have or had long distance relationships can relate with it.
Although the long distance relationship aspect of the film was done pretty good, but as the film dragged on I started to not care if this couple got together in the end or drifted apart.
I really like Drew Barrymore, this part was perfect for her to bring her tomboyish charm, because on the page this female lead could have been slightly annoying.Garrett (Justin Long) too played his part well, although I just didn't find him attractive, I was confused though, as I couldn't work out if I was suppose too, but then again if they cast a much more beautiful actor then perhaps the character might have been slightly unbelievable.Christina Applegate was great as always, she was my favourite.Some scenes are hilarious, but some of the dialogue is a bit off putting, I am no prude but some of it was a bit distasteful.If you like Pretty Woman, then you'll like this, just not as much though..
In Going the Distance, Garrett (Justin Long) and Erin (Drew Barrymore) meet while arguing over a lost game of Centipede.
Drew Barrymore and Justin long play romantic leads here, their chemistry is just alright, let's just say that they aren't a couple I'd be compelled to pull for, didn't really matter to me whether they stayed together or not in the end.
The romantic comedy film, titled Going the Distance can be described up the same way.
Sure she is also a "strong working" and "kick ass" girl of our times but at heart, you can see how sensitive she is.So I was expecting something sweet, funny and adorable, just like her...But this is the total opposite of those words.Trust me it's more an horror flick than a romance or comedy one.
However "Going the Distance" by choosing a somewhat milder downtrodden path fails to capture much of the gist of long distance relationships, instead taking genre short-cuts that go amiss, forcing the story into a dramatic dead-end.Erin (Drew Barrymore), a 30-ish intern at a New York magazine, hits off a precarious relationship with Garrett (Justin Long), a music talent scout with commitment issues.
Just the same, I believe I can write about it and rate it.This movie shows a woman in a relationship that is acted pretty closely to what I expect Drew Barrymore's relationships are really like.
They both want to be near each other because they're worried love won't last.Not that either of them is getting much in the way of advice, Drew from her sister and brother-in-law, Christina Applegate and Jim Gaffigan and Long from his brain dead friends Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis.Going The Distance is your typical comedy of the new century, helped along in large part by the charm of its leads.
'GOING THE DISTANCE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Surprisingly funny rom-com with the odd pairing of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore as the romantic leads.
The movie is witty and funny thanks to a clever script (by first time writer Geoffe La Tullippe) and a great supporting cast including Charlie Day (of 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA' fame), Jason Sudeikis (of 'SNL' fame), Jim Gaffigan, Rob Riggle, Ron Livingston and Christina Applegate.
I'm not the kind of guy who usually is quick to rush out and see a romantic comedy, but Going the Distance just seemed like it had something more to offer than that genre usually tosses out.
And I have to say that my positive expectations were mostly fulfilled.One of the best things about the movie is that it's a relationship comedy/drama that's genuinely funny, and it avoids the usual contrived problems that rom-coms throw between the two leads, in favor of realistic situations that anyone who has been in a long distance relationship can relate to.
The movie gets a bit more serious and less lighthearted as it goes on, but it never completely forgoes the funny dialogue and jokes that really helped get me into it from the very beginning.Justin Long and Drew Barrymore also were a big reason why Going the Distance leaves a lot of similar movies in the dust.
The cute and sweet Drew Barrymore is back once again in another romantic comedy and this one rightfully titled "Going the Distance" is a very funny and touching one.
It involves two thirty year old's in New York Barrymore as Erin a newspaper reporter and Garrett(Justin Long)as a record producer who both meet at a bar and have a one night stand.
Still the film focuses on the real life matters of decision making such as job placement and settling into the right geography location.In the end like most romantic comedies things work for themselves, overall "Going the Distance" is a very funny and humane obscenity treat in which Drew Barrymore is as cute and sexy as expected and Justin Long shows some good skill as an actor.
Most of all this romantic comedy proves timing needs to be right to give love a chance and long distance relationships are possible..
Adorable Drew Barrymore (Erin) and Justin Long (Garrett) are a real life couple (at the time of writing this synopsis) and on screen they are equally made for each other.
Original story, a whose-who list of fantastic secondary characters and genuine chemistry from two very likable leads in Drew Barrymore and Justin Long.
The cast of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore works really well together and Justin's friends in the film (played by Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) are hilarious!
I really liked this movie, maybe because I've been in a long distance relationship and one that worked out in the end but I was nodding at all of the frustrations and foibles they were having not seeing each other.But this was a comedy not a drama and there was great chemistry between all the characters, especially garret's two roommates, Jim gaffigan was a bit underused but the eating at the dinner table scene when erin and garret has to consummate was truly laugh out loud stuff.Drew barrymore did look a little old for this role and I don't know how realistic it is to be an intern at 31 but overall, this qualifies as good date material stuff.
They try to go the distance.Phone sex, video chats, text messaging, and many other methods of long distance communications are used in humorous, thoughtful, and romantic ways as this rom-com becomes less about clichés, and more about chemistry.Garrett's friends played by Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis are hilarious, and sometimes extremely filthy as they try to guide him through the process of a long distance relationship, and try to give him tips and tricks to stay together.What really works in this film are the jokes.
As long as how we get to that is funny, the characters are charming and not just the male and female unit, and if the film can throw in some extra perks like music and some great shots, it's a good or great romantic comedy.
And Going the Distance is.Starring: Justin Long, Drew Barrymore, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day. Directed by: Nanette Burstein..
The characters are all well cast, if we forget for a moment that Drew Barrymore, although her usual likable self, looked rather drawn and tired and thus a little too old for her part.The story is well-written and believable, and before I knew it Erin and Garrett were apart and more or less suffering their long distance relationship.
My rating – 3/5 Going the Distance is not novel or unique but it has everything you may expect when watching a romantic comedy.
Even though I have seeing fat better romantic movies in past years 'Going the Distance' has its own things to talk about.Erin (Drew Barrymore) is a summer intern in a New York news paper and six weeks away from leaving to her home town which is 3000miles in California.
Maybe pretending to be drunk was the toughest scene in the whole movie.If you are mild at heart and likes some love and fun in a mix, 'Going the Distance' is just the right thing for you.
Between him and Christina Applegate who play Drew's sister they absolutely made the film for me.A few downsides, Justin Long's story didn't go where the movie signposted it might, Ron Livingston played a small cameo as his boss and it seemed we'd get to see more of what Justin did - the bands he didn't like vs the ones he wanted to champion but that plot line just tailed off.
Justin Long, Christina Applegate,Ron Livingston, Jim Gaffigan, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are all great, but Drew Barrymore's lisp got really annoying.
From Movie Man Dan Anyone who's ever been part of the long distance relationship thing will know what it's like; waiting weeks to see your loved one only for those few moments to be over in what feels like seconds.
I also liked the close guy friend of Drew Barrymore in the movie.
I thought there was some pretty good on-screen chemistry between Long and Barrymore, and several fairly funny scenes especially in the first half.
But I surrendered to Going the distance.The two leads(Justin Long and Drew Barrymore) begin the film as slackers.
Going the Distance (2010): Nanette Burstein / Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate: Total snore fest with absolutely no entertainment whatsoever.