Dan in Real Life
Something's happening to Dan. It's confusing. It's awkward. It's family.
Something's happening to Dan. It's confusing. It's awkward. It's family.
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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2007
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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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Details
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
26 Oct 2007
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$68,474,305
Awards:
4 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Smoothly entertaining fare, but with a bit more nerve it could have been so much more.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
11 Jan 2008
fresh:
This is his [Carell's] most assured and rounded performance to date.
– Paul Clinton (CNN.com),
CNN.com,
3 Nov 2007
fresh:
Now, everybody knows that Steve Carell is lovable.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
31 Oct 2007
fresh:
It's a nice film. There's some nice touches to it.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
29 Oct 2007
rotten:
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.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
26 Oct 2007