Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life

★ 6.6IMDb Score
Released:2007-10-26
Duration:98 min
Director:Peter Hedges
Actors:Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt
Production:Touchstone Pictures, Focus Features, Jon Shestack Productions

Overview:

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.

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