Yay! Today is the day.. “Going The Distance” is officially out in theaters! Make sure you all go to it today or this weekend – let’s get this to #1! After you see the movie, e-mail us your review of it to frederick@d-barrymore.org Who’s going to go see it this weekend?!

LOS ANGELES — After feeding the rumor mills with their on-off relationship, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are back together starring in the upcoming release “Going the Distance,” about the difficulties of long distance love affairs.

Barrymore, 35, told a press conference in Beverly Hills about the film opening September 3, in which she stars as Erin, an aspiring journalist.

“Erin is a very strong girl; she can go to bars and win at video games and hang with the boys. But she put a relationship ahead of her dreams before and resented it,” she added.

Barrymore said she loves doing romantic comedies and that taking inspiration from their personal lives and relationship helped her and Long make “Going the Distance” more believable.

In the movie, Erin and Garrett (Long) meet and fall in love one night in a Manhattan bar. They live in New York and San Francisco and have to somehow navigate their bicoastal relationship around six hours’ flying time.

Barrymore plays a recently graduated journalist, a profession oft-seen among young women in Hollywood romantic movies these days. She and Garrett, an aspiring musician, struggle to find meaningful jobs while trying to keep their relationship together.

“I?d been reading a lot of romantic comedies, and this one really stood out for me in the sense that it was much more raw and realistic, and very funny, too. It didn?t hold back at all,” said Long, 32.

Long and Barrymore first went out together while shooting “He’s Just Not That Into You” (2007).

Hollywood star Drew Barrymore wouldn’t play a married character in a film because she doesn’t relate to it. The 35-year-old actress, who stars as a journalist in a long-distance relationship in Going The Distance, admits she likes doing romantic comedy movies, but only enjoys intelligent and realistic representations of love, London Evening Standard reported.

“I need rom-coms at the end of a bad day – a nice happy ending and a fairytale. On the other hand I like movies that are very grounded in reality but still maintain their comedy,” she said.

“I’m not at a place in my life where I want to play a character who says, ‘I just have to get married!. “I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I fell like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day.

It just terrifies me,” Barrymore added.The actress, who is said to be in a relationship with her Going the Distance co-star Justin Long, also admits she likes the idea of exploring the difficulties of being a modern woman in a film.

“This movie asks the question: ‘How do you keep the job and the guy?’ That is a question I’m interested in discussing, not like, ‘I’m going to rip your hair out because you stole my wedding dress.’ I don’t care about that,” she said.

Going The Distance is released worldwide throughout September.

Welcome to D-Barrymore.org! Your soon to be #1 source on all things on actress Drew Barrymore. Drew has been my favorite actress ever since I saw her in “Babes In Toyland” as a child and I continued to follow her career as she did movies “Never Been Kissed” and “Riding In Cars With Boys”, and I always wanted to do a fan site on her so I am so glad to be owning D-Barrymore.org – stay tuned for the latest Drew news, photos, videos and more all things Drew!