Dan in Real Life (2007) starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Mitch Burns, Dianne Wiest, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt, Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson, Marlene Lawston, Dane Cook. Carell plays Dan Burns, a widowed father of three girls. During a family reunion at the grandparents' house, Dan goes to the bookstore to pick up a newspaper and instantly falls in love with a woman named Marie (Binoche) he meets there. The catch? She's actually his brother's new girlfriend. He must pretend that he doesn't know her -- or so he thinks, anyway. There are so many awkward or downright unbelievable scenes in this movie that I couldn't even try to list them all. Example: Dan hides in Marie's (running) shower while his daughter has a heart-to-heart with Marie. Then when the shower is "ready," Marie must disrobe and join him in the shower. And his daughter never notices anything is amiss.
Along similar lines, the pairing of Carell and Binoche as a romantic couple is just totally unbelievable. Binoche is a wonderful actress, but she seems like a fish out of water here. I never for a moment felt the chemistry that was supposed to be happening between her and Carell.
And lastly, there just wasn't enough really clever comedy in this romantic comedy. Grade: C+
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