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Dan in Real Life (2007)

Dan in Real Life
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Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook

A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.

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70% liked it
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64% liked it
162 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed by: Peter Hedges
Release Date: Oct 26, 2007
DVD Release Date: Mar 11, 2008

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10 hours ago
Dan in Real Life is a cute little movie. A widower with three daughters gets together with his family for the holidays. He forms an instant connection with a woman he meets at a bookstore, but complications arise when she shows up at the family gat... (read more)
12 hours ago
Wasn't a very good movie ... oh well, that happens :)
14 hours ago
i always want to see these type of movies, family stone, running with scissors, but im always semi dissapointed by them, this one being no exception
18 hours ago
This was a pretty poor attempt at a romcom. Carell is good as always but there were lacklustre performances from the rest of the cast including the usually always great Binoche. It was like the actors knew it was a terrible film but went along with i... (read more)
21 hours ago
a sweet simple romance.

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774 days ago
Pete Hammond, Maxim
Finally a really smart, really funny movie about the ups and downs of life, love and family.
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774 days ago
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Why must so many family-friendly romantic comedies give us such wan, forgettable dialogue and predictable situations? Dan is derivative at best, and feels like filmmaking by focus group at worst.
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774 days ago
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
In the end, the commercial necessity of wrapping up a family comedy in less than 100 minutes seems to have trumped anything real about Dan's life.
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775 days ago
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Dan in Real Life is neither wildly farcical nor mockingly cruel, but rather, for the most part, winningly gentle and observant.
775 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
There are some loud moments and big laughs.
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