Sadly, Steve Carell is not so funny ‘in real life’
Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche almost save “Dan In Real Life” from its many flaws. These two actors have what film critic Pauline Kael called the “value of stars,” that ability to lift a movie away from its imperfections and turn it into something satisfying. In the intermittently funny “Dan In Real Life,” they work against several deep imperfections, chief among them a host of grating characters and a problematic, predictable script.
Carell plays Dan Burns, an advice columnist who — surprise surprise — isn’t as together as the wisdom he dishes out. His wife’s death has left him...
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