
Erin has just six more weeks as an intern at the New York Sentinel before she returns to San Francisco. That's fine with Garrett since he just got out of a relationship. But their relationship blossoms and it quickly becomes something that they can't just drop in six weeks. They admit to wanting to be boyfriend/girlfriend just on opposite coasts. The distance wears on them, as with their nay-saying friends and sister, and soon they are forced to either break up or come up wit... (Full plot summary below)
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Erin has just six more weeks as an intern at the New York Sentinel before she returns to San Francisco. That's fine with Garrett since he just got out of a relationship. But their relationship blossoms and it quickly becomes something that they can't just drop in six weeks. They admit to wanting to be boyfriend/girlfriend just on opposite coasts. The distance wears on them, as with their nay-saying friends and sister, and soon they are forced to either break up or come up with a solution that has them living in the same city.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe film captures the harshness and the sweetness of our time. |
| Boxoffice MagazinePam GradyLikely to resonate with a generation of young people to whom "When Harry Met Sally's" orgasm scene seems downright quaint. |
| TimeMary PolsThe raunchy but charming Going the Distance is credible, intimate and more appealing than 90% of the romantic pairings in American movies these days. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliTo date, no motion picture has adequately captured the soaring highs and devastating lows associated with a long distance relationship, but Going the Distance comes as close as any movie has. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsI liked the movie mainly for Barrymore. The way she handles the crucial, early "I love you" moment (he's saying it to her, and the camera shows us what she's thinking), you think: This is one canny actress. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasGoing The Distance could stand to color outside the lines a bit more, but it's perceptive about the problems of young people torn between pursuing love or their nascent career ambitions, and the witty script, by first-timer Geoff LaTulippe, is spiked with refreshing profanity. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisGoing the Distance earns its R rating, often by daring to say what goes frequently unsaid by women in raunchy comedies. It's not a very good movie. The entire second half is a sitcom. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanGoing the Distance may be a minor movie, but it's also the rare romantic comedy in which you can actually believe what you're seeing. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThere's also some gallows humor about the record and newspaper industries, but overall this is a light, genial comedy about denial and self-defense. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOnce around the block with these folks is more than enough. |