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Dan In Real Life
2007
Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he's not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn't made any attempts to date. So he's pleasantly surprised when he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) at a bookstore when he goes to his .. Read more
| Starring | Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Alison Pill |
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| Director | Peter Hedges |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
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Dan In Real Life
Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he's not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn't made any attempts to date. So he's pleasantly surprised when he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) at a bookstore when he goes to his parents' Rhode Island home for the annual family reunion. But his joy is short-lived when he discovers that she is dating his brother (Dane Cook), forcing Dan to hide his feelings and chemistry with Marie.
| Starring | Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson, Marlene Lawston, Dianne Wiest, John Mahoney |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter Hedges |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 34 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 38 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 09 Jun 2008 Blu-ray: 06 Oct 2008 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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A Thanksgiving family gathering becomes a romantic battleground for widower Steve Carell in this pleasant, if... read more on Time Out
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36 out of 40 people found this review helpful
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Vile and sisnister movie
A guy tries to steal his brother's girlfriend, whilst all his family is having a get together. Hmm, lovely! Tries to be cute about it, whilst ticking off all the boxes of what a 'cute' film should do, but there's naer a good performance to be seen and the whole thing just made me feel genuinely uncomfortable.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
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Heartwarming stuff
A lovely, lovely movie, that can pretty much be summed up by the scene in the bookstore between the two main characters. All the things Marie is looking for in a book will be presented to you exactly as she wishes - but that doesn't stop the film from hitting all the right notes without any of the Hollywood schmaltz you may expect.
Steve Carrell is brilliant, as ever, this time playing a slightly awkward but entirely earnest widower - me and friends have discussed why we like Steve Carell so much in this type of role, and it's the honesty that always comes through. He's just got one of those faces you can't help but like, and a nervous charm that wins the day.
The entire supporting cast are uniformly brilliant, with special notes going to Juliet Binoche, Dane Cook (and I never thought I'd say that) and the three girls who play Carrell's daughters. The writing is sharp, not quite as ground breaking as it could be but the film has such charm that a cliche every now and then doesn't hurt, and a few standout scenes will really leave an impression. Carrell and his brother's impromptu karaoke session stands out as a nice heartwarming scene that takes a turn into heartbreaking and emotional with just a few extra seconds. Softies like me will melt.
Comparisons to Little Miss Sunshine are entirely unfounded - save for Steve Carrell and a bittersweet approach to the material, there are few similarities. What this is a warm blanket of a movie - it'll undoubtedly be forgotten amongst a mass of more propular rom-com guff, but it's got far more heart then any of them.
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- Selfy from Newcastle upon Tyne
- Posted 24 Jun 2008 21:31
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Dan In Real Life
- 08 Jan 2008
When I interviewed the lovely Juliette Binoche at the Toronto Film Festival in September 06, she told me she had films lined up with the Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsaio-hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon will be released later this year); the Israeli Amos Gitai (Disengagement); the Frenchmen Olivier Assayas and Cedric Klapisch (Summer Time and Paris will also likely reach UK cinemas later this year); Argentine Santiago Amigorena; Iranian Abbas Kiarostami; and Cambodian Rithy Pran. Oh, and she was... Read more
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