Release Date: March 11, 2007 Studio: Touchstone Pictures Director: Peter Hedges Screenwriter: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges Starring: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily
Blunt, Dianne Wiest, Amy Ryan Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some innuendo)
Review:
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...more
Extras:
Commentary by
writer-director
Peter Hedges,
deleted scenes, real
life outtakes,
"Handmade Music:
Creating the Score,"
"Just Like Family:
The Making of Dan in
Real Life."
Dan in Real Life Release Date: October 26, 2007 Studio: Touchstone Pictures Director: Peter Hedges Screenwriter: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges Starring: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily
Blunt, Dianne Wiest, Amy Ryan Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some innuendo) Official Website:
DaninRealLife-themovie.com
Plot Summary: Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships,
but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent in this
heartfelt comedy from director Peter Hedges ("Pieces of April").
EN 5 Second Review:
Sappy, but funny and Steve Carell is awesome as usual.
Dan
in Real Life navigates its machinations with such laid-back
assurance that it earns your attention, your respect and, ultimately,
your heart Gene Seymour: Newsday
Dan Burns seems, on the surface, to be yet another of those
anal-retentive klutzes on which Steve Carell's been all but cornering
the market. His eponymous "Dan in Real Life" is a widowed advice
columnist intent on carrying on his gig while single-handedly raising
his lively handful of daughters...more
The
sort of movie that wears down your resistance until,
finally, you feel as if something must be wrong with you if
you don't fall for the cheap theatrics of its story and the
emotional manipulations of its characters Bruce Newman: San Jose Mercury
News But isn't that what "real life"
is, after all - a series of emotional theatrics and cheap
manipulations? Taken on its own terms, "Dan in Real Life" is
an irresistible force: a comedy that's not really funny, a
melodrama that's not really sad, about people who insist
upon being thought of as likable, even when they're not...more
EN 5 Second Review:
Sappy, but funny and Steve Carell is awesome as usual.
The
sort of movie that wears down your resistance until,
finally, you feel as if something must be wrong with you if
you don't fall for the cheap theatrics of its story and the
emotional manipulations of its characters