As you can read below, there are some minor content issues, but we award this funny and well-made film five out of five doves, our highest rating. We award our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal to this movie with one warning: be ready to laugh a lot. Dan’s determination to remain loyal to his brother conflicts with his interest in Marie, and his attempt to hide his frustration, as well as Steve Carell’s great facial expressions, make for some great comedy. The real laugh-out-loud moments, and there are many, stem from Dan and Marie (Juliette Binoche) falling for one another, only to learn that the man Marie has just begun a relationship with is Dan’s brother, Mitch (Dane Cook). The youngest daughter is cute as a button and sincere in her devotion to her father. When Dan learns it is the middle daughter and not the oldest, he says, “Come back in two years!” and closes the door. This sets up a great scene as the boy comes to visit, and when Dan answers the door, the boy explains he is there to see Dan’s daughter. The middle daughter believes she is in love with a boy and that her father simply doesn’t understand that it is the “real” thing. A widower and father of three who also writes a parenting advice column for his local newspaper falls for the girlfriend of his younger brother during a family vacation in director Peter Hedges offbeat love-triangle laugher. The daughters alone set up some potentially humorous moments as one is seventeen and pushing her father to let her drive. He plays Dan Burns, a widower raising three daughters. “Dan in Real Life” is a laugh-out-loud comedy! This film is consistently funny and should propel Steve Carell further up the Hollywood ladder of success. For the first time in a very, very long time, Dan experiences real, live sparks - only to have to douse them liberally when he discovers Marie is, in fact, the new girlfriend his brother Mitch (Cook) is about to proudly introduce to the family. Soon after his arrival, he runs into an alluring woman named Marie (Binoche) in a bookshop. The story of Steve Carell’s flawed but loveable character echoed Sharon’s own work to realize love as a capacity within ourselves. But when Dan heads to Rhode Island, his miffed daughters in tow, for the annual Fall weekend thrown by the large and boisterous Burns family, everything changes. 'Dan in Real Life' brought this lesson home for meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. It all begins when widowed father and family advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell), who is still reeling from the heartache of loss, tries to maintain order with his three rebellious young girls while dodging anything unexpected. Starring alongside stand-up star Dane Cook and Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche, Carell is about to discover a family weekend of chaos, confusion, awkwardness - and ultimately, his entire family's extraordinary capacity for love in the face of left-field surprises. Comic sensation Steve Carell stars as an ordinary guy who accidentally stumbles out of his "play-it-safe" life into the exhilarating world of the unexpected when he falls in love on what was supposed to be a family getaway. A conflicted romance collides head-on into the perils of family relations with fun-filled results in Peter Hedges' fresh, clever and hilarious take on the slice-of-life comedy.
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