(C-) Click here to watch a preview. At the time Going the Distance was released (September 2010), Justin Long was 32 and Drew Barrymore was 35; but Long’s hair, face, and demeanor make him seem like a kid next to screen veteran Barrymore. During several of the movie’s scenes, it is easier to imagine Long as Barrymore’s son from an early teenage romance than as her lover. (She does not look old: he just looks and acts immature.) This is reinforced every time Long tells a dumb childish joke and gets a loud alcoholic cackle in return from Barrymore. There is no on-screen spark between these two.
Erin (Drew Barrymore) is on sabbatical from her graduate studies in journalism at Stanford to work as an intern at a New York newspaper. She has six weeks to go before returning to California when she meets and falls in love with Garrett who has a job at a record label. Read the Rest of This Review »