{"id":840,"date":"2007-11-01T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/movie-review-dan-in-real-life\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:03:20","slug":"movie-review-dan-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: &#8220;Dan In Real Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY MAGGIE SCOTT<\/p>\n<p>Four years after his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is still sleeping on half their double bed; with her half covered in stuff.  &#8220;A good father, but a terrible dad,&#8221; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having trouble speaking the language of his pre- and post-pubescent daughters, even though he writes an advice column about parenting.  <\/p>\n<p>Dan in Real Life is not your typical story of love-is-lovelier-the-second-time-around-even-for-a-struggling-single-parent. <\/p>\n<p> With sly humor always skirting the perimeter of empathically moving moments, director Peter Hedges shows a sure hand on the helm of this universally appealing story of Dan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evolution from withdrawal from the world into delighted determination to move on with his life.  <\/p>\n<p>Over-protective, Dan indulges his youngest and keeps an easy-going thumb on his two rapidly maturing daughters; one of whom is in the middle of a cataclysmically passionate first love.  Dad says real love isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possible after only three weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>Hoping for some bonding beyond the reach of Cara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irrational teen environment, Dan packs her, Jane and Lilly (Brittany Robertson; Alison Pill; Marlene Lawston) off to his folks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ocean-side place in Rhode Island for a family reunion.  Feeling like a fifth wheel and a failure amid the disapproval of his daughters, the happy chaos of his married-with-children siblings and the sympathies of his contented parents, Dan takes off alone up the coast to hide his moping psyche in the local bookstore.  <\/p>\n<p>There, Cupid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrow strikes.  In walks Marie (Juliette Binoche), a woman who makes Dan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slyly peeping eyes widen in heart-flipping interest.  Mistaking the lurking Dan in the store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stacks for a clerk, she asks him to help her find something between the covers (as in, book covers) that will help her with the wildly fluctuating feelings connected to her new relationship.  <\/p>\n<p>After three hours, Dan is in love.  He races home to tell his family that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s met a girl, and &#8220;she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really something.&#8221;  Turns out, that something is the girlfriend of Dan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother, Mitch (Dane Cook).  With jaw-dropping dismay, Dan tries to deal honorably with this supposedly spoken-for woman.  <\/p>\n<p>Through all the agonizing proximity to Marie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tantalizing personality during family games of charades, touch football on the lawn and team cross-word puzzle competitions (girls against guys), Dan tries to keep his distance.  Laughing at the absurdity one minute and almost crying about the ironic shame of it all the next, the secret lovers dance around each other and the beginning-to-suspect Burns clan.  <\/p>\n<p>Even Dan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughters can see what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cooking; and his advancing state of craziness is about to seriously jeopardize his already compromised relationship with them.  Although a love story like this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily exist in real life, this thoroughly delightful work is really easy to fall for.  <\/p>\n<p>A Focus Features\/Touchstone Pictures release, rated PG-13 for mild sexual content.<br \/>\n<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/where-to-buy-genuine-flovent\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MAGGIE SCOTT Four years after his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is still sleeping on half their double bed; with her half covered in stuff. &#8220;A good father, but a terrible dad,&#8221; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having trouble speaking the language of his pre- and post-pubescent daughters, even though he writes an advice column about parenting. 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