Synopsis
Advice columnist Dan Burns 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.
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Cast
- Steve CarellDan
- Juliette BinocheMarie
- Dane CookMitch
- Alison PillJane
- Britt RobertsonCara
- Marlene LawstonLilly
- Dianne WiestNana
- John MahoneyPoppy
- Emily BluntRuthie Draper
- Amy RyanEileen
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
A nimble and supple and moving comedy. - 88
Rolling Stone
Carell shows a whole new side to his talents. - 88
Chicago Tribune
As a director Hedges is smart enough to allow his actors to share the frame and interact and let the material breathe. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Provides Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche with comic roles that fit them like designer threads. - 80
Variety
Deftly interlaces heart and humor in a witty, warm and well-observed comedy about the unexpected and inconvenient blooming of romance at the weekend gathering of an extended family. - 63
Charlotte Observer
Cook has as much depth as a coaster, so it's impossible under any circumstances to imagine Binoche falling in love with him. Her complicated, heartfelt performance is the reason to see the film: When she's around, she pierces the soothing gray nothingness with shafts of sunlight. - 60
Village Voice
Dan in Real Life steals from that line in "Virgin" about Carell kinda looking like Luke Wilson, since here Carell is, after all, playing the Luke Wilson role from "The Family Stone." - 50
Austin Chronicle
All goes according to course, and that's exactly the problem with Dan in Real Life.
