Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Dan In Real Life

I am just here in the house today and decided to browse over my downloaded movies via torrent. I randomly chose Dan In Real Life and said "oh, this can't be bad. Why don't I give it a try?" and yes, I did.Dan In Real LifeOf all the movies steve carell starred, this one really tugged my heart. It's a nice story. It's a story about love, life and family.

Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is an advice columnist in a local newspaper and is a widower with 3 daughters he needs to deal with. As a tradition, Dan takes his children to his parents house along with the other members of their family. Dan, being the father, does not understand that his daughters are growing up. Cara (Britanny Robertson) is falling in love. Jane (Alison Pill) already knows how to drive and his youngest daughter Lily (Marlene Lawston) can already think by her own. As these things keep them arguing, they brought with them their fights on Dan's parents' house.

One day as Dan and his daughters were having an argument, Dan's mom, Nana (Dianne Wiest) told him to go out and buy papers. As he did in the bookstore, he met a girl named Marie (Juliette Binoche). To get her attention, he disguised as an attendant inside the bookstore and convinced Marie to buy the books he offered her. As the real attendant went to Marie, she found out that Dan was not really the attendant. As this happened, Dan proposed to make it up to her and they shared a meaningful conversation which was then cut off when someone called Marie. Dan asked for her number and then Marie at first who was hesitant, saying she's starting a new realtionship with someone, finally gave it to him.

As Dan was on his way home, he started to fall in love with Marie. When he got home, he told his brothers that he met a girl in the bookshop and was asking for an advice whether to call her or not. Dan was about to give in the details when poof, Marie showed up. Little did Dan know, Marie is the new girlfriend of his brother Mitch (Dane Cook).

When reality sank in, that's when the real story began. Dan and Marie trying to conceal the feelings that they know they can't ignore. Pretending that they're cool about it. Will Mitch and Marie broke up because of Dan? Or will Dan and Marie avoid each other because of Mitch? Try to figure it out and watch the movie, yourself.

If I would have to rate this movie out of 5, I'll say it's 4. Really nice.

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