Review: Dan in Real Life

Published: October 26, 2007, 7:02 am

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Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Romance, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews, Scripts & Screenwriting, New in Theaters, Family Films As the end credits roll on Dan in Real Life, I imagine most people will have roughly the same reaction -- a smile and a shrug. You won't be angry at yourself for watching it, but you'll be hard pressed to remember the thing in two weeks. It's a relentlessly average movie, packed full of "nice" moments but lacking a single great one. Steve Carell stars as Dan, a widowed advice columnist trying to be a good father to his three daughters, well played by Alison Pill, Marlene Lawston, and a very funny Brittany Robertson. A widowed man raising his three daughters is also the premise of the old sitcom Full House, and the comparison isn't far off. These daughters are fleshed out a bit more than the Olsen twins, but the relationship beats feel the same -- forced, cutesy, a little tired. Dan and the girls go to visit their extended family in a lakeside Rhode

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