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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936732658
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 1002
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Steve Carell (THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN TV's THE OFFICE) Hollywood's leading funnyman stars in the hilarious comedy that's bursting with charm -- a movie you'll watch again and again. Advice columnist Dan Burns (Carell) is an expert on relationships but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend. Carell is joined by a brilliant all-star supporting cast including Juliette Binoche Dane Cook John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest for a heartfelt fun-filled comedy that's 'laugh-out-loud funny' -- Steve Oldfield FOX.System Requirements:Running Time: 98 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/FAMILY GATHERINGS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 786936732658 Manufacturer No: 05416600
Amazon.com:
Steve Carell’s best film performance to date can be found in the fitfully engaging Dan In Real Life, where his long-suffering persona suits a character who lets his long-dormant hopes rise for a moment, only to be shot down again. Carell plays Dan Burns, a newspaper columnist who writes about family issues and relationships. As a widower with three growing girls to raise, however, the difference between Dan’s printed wisdom and his struggles with fatherhood and loneliness is often vast. He’s put to a severe test when he packs up the kids for a cabin holiday with his parents and siblings, then falls for the exotic, if elusive, Marie (Juliette Binoche) during a solo excursion to a bookstore. Stirred by a woman for the first time since his late wife, Dan is shocked to find that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch (Dane Cook), and that she’ll be spending the vacation with him in the midst of his family. From that point, the script, co-written by director Peter Hedges (Pieces of April), pretty much becomes a parade of difficult circumstances under which both Dan and Marie have to keep their attraction to one another secret. Certain scenes work better than others, but there is an overall monotony to the movie that isn’t helped by a lack of onscreen chemistry between Binoche and Carell. Both actors are fine on their own terms, but whatever is supposed to be clicking between Marie and Dan isn’t compelling enough to make one truly care that they get together somehow. Still, this is a film with plenty of moments to like, especially when Carell gets to broaden his previous range of emotions in a movie. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - You'll love Steve Carell in this.
I had the chance to watch Dan in Real Life, starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, this week, and may I just say that I'm beginning to think Steve Carell can play whatever role he chooses? The man has displayed some range, people, range that you often don't see in a "comedic" actor. This tendency reminds me a bit of Jim Carrey, but I think that Carell's style is subtler and funnier.
In this movie, Carell plays Dan, a widowed newspaper-advice columnist with three daughters. Dan has ... Read More
Rating:  - A Pleasant Date Movie
Wow, Steve Carrell, Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook all in the same movie. I've never heard of Dane Cook until I read all these comparisons of him to the late great American icon comic George Carlin. And now he has a featured role alongside one of the most accomplished French actresses in cinema, Binoche. Dan in Real Life, is obviously going to attract fans of "The Office's" Steve Carrell, who is very good in this movie, but if you're not a fan of any of the principal actors, then this is just another ... Read More
Rating:  - Watching a man mope isn't entertainment
Watch a depressed, dejected, sullen faced man mope around for two hours. Sounds like a barrel of laughs! Dan in Real Life is two hours of watching a middle aged man mope. That, and be a controlling father obsessed with squashing his teenage daughter's sexuality. But see, its cute that he wants to slap a chastity belt on his daughter, because he's upset over not having love in his own life. Enter, Juliet Binoche - alluring no matter how brain dead this role is. Dan falls for her in a bookstore, even though ... Read More
Rating:  - Super Dad has a meltdown
Dan in Real Life by Richard D. Costa
How does a single father of three young daughters save his children from the corruption of modern culture? He writes a column on how to do it right, politely rebukes male suitors at the doorstep and embraces the power of the word every father worth their salt has at his disposal: `no.'
So begins the story of columnist and book author Dan Burns (Steve Carell) in Dan in Real Life. Dan walks the straight and narrow. He lives with his two teen-aged and one nine ... Read More
Rating: - No chemistry . .
I think this movie would have been SO much better had they recast Juliette Binoche with somebody else (anybody else actually!) like Monica Potter for instance. I never bought Ms. Binoche on any level in this film and the entire family's total gushing over her was so unbelievable. Steve Carell's so-called chemistry with her was painful to watch. But the setting was beautiful!
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