Going the Distance

Who doesn’t love Drew Barrymore? She always manages to bring a little realism to even the most outrageous movie scripts. Here she attempts – very nobly – to give us a credible and likeable romcom.

Playing her love interest is real-life boyfriend Justin Long, who’s also hard not to like. Sounds like a winning recipe, does it not? That’s exactly the problem. On paper the movie should be a hit, but somewhere along the line it stumbles into many of the clichéd romcom pitfalls. Of course this is not the actors’ fault; sadly the script calls for one too many cringy scenes, which kind of ruins the whole realism idea.

I won’t say it’s a total bust, but I will say that Drew probably could have done it better if she had written and directed the script herself.

Rating: 3 outta 5.