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...comes Dan in Real Life with Steve Carell, an actor whose appealing, interior, sad-sack demeanor is made for chick comedy. He plays Dan Burns, an advice columnist and widowed father of three girls, who instantly falls for the lovely Marie (Juliet Binoche) when they meet at a bookstore. Darn the luck, she turns out to be the new girlfriend of Dan's younger brother Mitch (Dane Cook, who's already had his own failed fall comedy, Good Luck Chuck). A mainstream comedy with an indie vibe, Dan hopes to be the film that gets couples back in the theater...
...wrongful termination suit filed against the school by three former professors who claim that they were fired after providing the school's Board of Regents with a report detailing moral and ethical lapses by Oral's son Richard, who had inherited the school's presidency from his father, and Richard's wife Lindsay. Among the allegations: the Roberts had remodeled their home eleven times in 14 years with university money; they bankrolled one of their daughters' $29,411 trip to the Bahamas with school funds; and Lindsay Roberts had spent the night in an O.R.U. guest-house with an underage...
...Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling, eerily calm almost to the end, he keeps manufacturing work-arounds that, naturally, continue to make matters worse for him. In particular, he misjudges the towering and implacable rage for vengeance that comes upon his father...
Rationally, I can understand why people love beer. It’s cheap, it’s conducive to drinking games, and you can drink a Solo cup full of it without landing in University Health Services. But every time my father offers me a sip from his bottle during a football game, or I find myself with a can of Natty Lite at a room party, I’m going to pass on it. And it’s not because I’m a killjoy...
...first and last moment of tranquility for the day. Such thoughtful moments redeem what could be dismissed as yet another cliché romantic comedy, complete with an out-of-touch parent struggling to raise his children and have a personal life. Meet Dan Burns: a widowed advice columnist and father of three. Dan liberally consults with lots of anonymous readers, but is unable to talk to his own daughters on subjects ranging from driving to romance. Typical father-daughter scenarios are sprinkled throughout the movie, including a family retreat to a Rhode Island beach house, charades, and touch football...