Dan in Real Life (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt
Screenwriter: Pierce Gardner, Peter Hedges
Producer: Jon Shestack, Brad Epstein
Composer: Sondre Lerche
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 11, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Peter Hedges - Writer/Director
- Clips & Highlights - HANDMADE MUSIC: Creating The Score
- Deleted Scenes - Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Writer/Director Peter Hedges
- Outtakes
- Making Of - JUST LIKE FAMILY: THE MAKING OF DAN IN REAL LIFE
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Reviews
I wound up enjoying most of what I saw, despite its familiarity and predictability. The film's got a good heart.
Okay for forgiving romance fans, and a maybe-see for the rest of us.
It attempts to take a Three's A Company situation and mix it together with a widower trying to raise three children. This is not cool.
It's hilarious and painful as only real situations can be, and Hedges directs his excellent cast, with sensitivity and wry humour.
It's hard for a film like this not to come off as too sweet, but this grown up comedy manages in making it a real gem.
Writer-director Peter Hedges ('Pieces of April') maintains a perfect balance between the comedy and the romance.
entyposiaka prosgeiomeno kai pisteyto (sto megalytero meros toy toylahiston), me mia epistrosi glykopikroy glassoy panta paroysa, na kalyptei tis elleipseis stoys arhetypikoys perifereiakoys haraktires kai tis sporadikes symbatikes eksarseis toy eidoys
It's amiable enough, but the ickiness levels are too high and Juliette Binoche always looks uncomfortable in this shallow-end material.
About as riotous as gassing yourself during a wet weekend in Worksop.
An off-centre rom-com with unlikely stars, this indie drama is neither too funny nor too romantic in its balance of laughs and tenderness. The perfect date movie for middle-aged romantics (and we mean that as a compliment).
It's the unlikely chemistry between Binoche and Carell coupled with Carell's impeccable comic timing (watch out for the shower scene) that keeps you glued to the screen.
Touching, tender and laugh-out-loud funny, this little rom-com will melt your heart then rebuild it afresh. It’s so warm and inviting, you’ll want to spend a week in its company. But you only get 99 minutes. Treasure them.
Smoothly entertaining fare, but with a bit more nerve it could have been so much more.
As the author of ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’, writer-director Hedges knows how to tell a story about kith and kin without smothering it in goo.
A small but sweetly formed comedy of romantic misfortune that can’t quite keep Hollywood at bay.
Enjoyable, emotionally engaging and frequently hilarious comedy drama with a superb script and terrific performances from its ensemble cast.
There is no mistaking Hedges' film for anything other than a saccharine corn-fest, but what keeps it from palling entirely is the strength of the ensemble performances, and the smartly understated writing.
Carell is appealing and the family drama plays out as something real that sort of sneaks up on you in a good way.
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