There were 30 minutes between my seeing this Drew Barrymore/Justin Hill rom-com and Kristin Stewart vehicle The Runaways. Purely a timing thing, Going the Distance started earlier and that was it, but I'm glad I did because I'm not sure The Runaways would have been as enjoyable as a Sunday afternoon film.
I'm not saying that Going the Distance is an amazing film just a light, entertaining, at times nicely-scripted romantic comedy that has just enough edge to make it stand out from the usual banal fodder.
As the name suggests it's about a couple trying to make a long distance relationship work. Erin is a summer intern at the New York Sentinel and meets and falls in love with Garrett but at the end of the summer she has to return home to California.
Yes there are some moments that seem to be straight out of 'Rom-Com 101' but what I liked is there is plenty of potty humour between Garrett and his flat-mates, indeed I laughed out loud several times. It also has the appropriate amount of tear-jerking 'rom'. So I laughed, I cried and I'll certainly watch it again on a Sunday night when it's on Sky.
Aggregated review ratings:
Metacritic: 51% from the professionals, 4.5/10 from the readers
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