Marie agrees to meet with Dan again before leaving but tells Dan that she has a boyfriend. Dan and Marie have an obvious connection and continue to talk over breakfast. Dan visits a bookstore and a customer named Marie (Juliette Binoche) mistakes him for an employee. The morning after his arrival, Dan's mother encourages him to go into town for a bit to give his daughters some space.
But Dan insists that it is not possible to fall in love in three days and makes her go. Cara does not want to go, as she does not want to leave her boyfriend Marty (Felipe Dieppa) whom she claims to have fallen in love with in just three days. The family takes a trip to the Rhode Island home of his parents (Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney) to visit his family-including his New York City-based brother, Mitch (Dane Cook), a personal trainer-for an annual family get together. His column is in contention to be syndicated nationally. All goes according to course, and that's exactly the problem with Dan in Real Life.Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is a newspaper advice columnist, a widower, and a controlling father to his children Jane (Alison Pill), Cara (Brittany Robertson), and Lilly (Marlene Lawston) in the New Jersey suburbs. The family meddles, the Burns girls all have their issues, and The Devil Wears Prada scene-stealer Blunt shows up in a thankless role as a blind date. An unendurable family talent-show sequence in the third act is somewhat compensated for with a lovely set-piece in a bowling alley. Awkward situations ensue as Dan and Marie can't get together yet can't stay apart. After a meet-cute with Marie (Binoche) at the local tackle shop/bookstore, Dan feels the sparks of affection for the first time since his wife's death, then is dismayed to discover back at the house that his inamorata is the girlfriend of his brother Mitch (Cook), a cad who, with Marie, has brought home the first girlfriend of whom his family has ever approved.
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Most of the movie takes place within the close confines of a family vacation gathering with his parents (Wiest and Mahoney) and brothers (Cook and Butz) and their families in a shambling North Carolina seashore abode. Carell is in his subdued, Little Miss Sunshine seriocomic mode here as Dan Burns, a widower of four years whose life revolves around the care of his three daughters (Pill, Robertson, and Lawston) and his work as an advice columnist. This new film will garner Hedges his biggest audience, and let's hope that it allows him to return to his more quirkily crafted characterizations. Hedges also wrote the screenplays for What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (from his own novel) and About a Boy (adapted from Nick Hornby's book), other works whose distinctive characters stand apart from mediocrity. His previous effort, Pieces of April, followed a similar trajectory of family entanglement, though the characters had more edge and personality than they do in Dan in Real Life. More had been hoped for in this second writer/director project from Hedges. Audiences are sure to reward Dan in Real Life with audible laugh tracks, but the laughter won't come in response to surprise or astonishment, only as the acknowledgment of a winning execution of a familiar comedic ploy.
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It's not that there's anything terribly awful with it it's just that what passes for real life in this film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom. If this is "real life," then count me out.
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