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Dan In Real Life Details

2007 Certificate PG
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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
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 Certificate PG
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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  • 3 stars out of

    A Thanksgiving family gathering becomes a romantic battleground for widower Steve Carell in this pleasant, if... read more on Time Out

    • Trevor Johnston, 
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  • 36 out of 40 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    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.

      • Lunar from Derby
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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Slow

    Avoid, this is slow and boring !

      • A customer from Bourne End
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    Dan In Real Life

    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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