Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedydrama film directed by Peter Hedges, starring Steve Carell, Alison Pill, Juliette Binoche, Dianne Wiest, John Mahoney, and Dane Cook.

Sulky Cara does not want to go, and leave her boyfriend Marty Felipe Dieppa with whom she claims to have fallen in love, in just three days, initializing a repetitive theme of loveatfirst sight. Dan, insisting that it is not possible to fall in love in three days, gently but firmly insists. The morning after their arrival, Dans mother encourages him to go into town, to give his daughters breathing room. Lonely and bemused, Dan visits a bookstore, where an attractive foreign customer, Juliette Binoche, mistakes him for an employee. Dan and Marie bond over a small planet sized muffin and a heartfelt chat about his life since losing his wife to cancer. The stranger, whose preferred name is Marie, agrees to speak with Dan again before leaving, but gently warns Dan that she has a boyfriend. Dan returns to his parents house and elatedly tells Mitch and Clay that he has met someone. They call on the women in the house for advice over Dan meeting, a hottie and Mitch calls out for his new girlfriend, Annie, to get into the mix. Lo and behold, Dans Marie is Mitchs Annie. Later, on a family beach walk, Dan is visibly disheartened, but makes small talk with his Dad about the possibility of his advice column being nationally syndicated, and miserably resists his fathers relationship advice about finding someone of his own.Dan and Marie spend the majority of the weekend attempting to deny and resist their growing attraction and obvious suitability to each other. Set up on a blind date by his mother, and egged on by Mitch, Dan reluctantly agrees to a foursome dinner with their once unattractive childhood friend, Ruthie pigfaced Draper Emily Blunt, who is now a plastic surgeon, and visiting town. The evening has the unexpected, charming effect of bringing out Maries deeper feelings for Dan as she jealously watches him and Ruthie. The next morning, now convinced that her jealous surliness is proof of her attraction to him, Dan smugly, and almost lovingly, endures her punishment for

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