Castle Rock Entertainment
July 21, 1989
Romcom
DVD
B-
Romcom
DVD
B-
So here's the thing. I saw this movie once or twice before, not at the time, because at twenty-one I was a little young for it. I always thought it was over-rated but not terrible, and just seeing the trailers made me mildly dislike Meg Ryan for decades. So I didn't exactly go into this with high hopes.
But it's actually pretty good, sweet and mildly funny. I can't relate to it, I don't think I've ever related to it*, but it's definitely interesting in an anthropological sense, very much of its time. And it's much better than at least 90% of the romcoms out there, especially ones I've attempted for this project. And, yeah, I'll finally start cutting Meg Ryan some slack.
Nora Ephron wrote (with a lot of input), and Rob Reiner directed.
*I relate to Going the Distance hard, even if I'm not actually like any of the people in it.
