Market Decline MoviesTM: Dan in Real Life
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt, Dianne Wiest
Directed by Peter Hedges
Aging irresistible pixie Juliette Binoche alights on the life of sad widower Dan (Steve Carell) and he tries fiercely to make us believe this is the best he deserves. Lost in a raucous and Kennedyesque (they play touch football on their broad seaside Rhode Island lawn and dance to Motown, as a family) family that is harder on him than Adam Sandler's is in Punch Drunk Love, (maybe they're the problem), Dan can't catch a break with precocious (of course) daughters who hate him and a love interest (Binoche) who failed to tell him that she was already engaged to his brother (Dane Cook). Anyway, Dan falls in love with Binoche rather than pegging her as a flight risk and superficial as doughnut sugar. The unbearable lightness of a weak script pinned to personalities rather than humans.
This movie's biggest crime is the under-utilization (but then, what could she do?) of Gone Baby Gone's superb Amy Ryan, here playing one of Carell's innumerable and anonymous sibs.
Music by Morten Skage of the Faces Down is like Kimya Dawson's from Juno plus twenty years and a tuning fork and Regina Spektor. (In other words, it's better.)
How it reflects the economy: Market constraints require we settle for less. In this case, that means Juliette Binoche. I would have preferred Dan marry his sister. At least she seems grounded. Maybe next year's big Juno-like social taboo movie will be sibling/sibling dating? It worked in The Hotel New Hampshire. Despite having a landed gentry family with a seaside compound and a steady job with upward mobility, Steve Carell is still stuck with Juliette Binoche in what appears to a caste marriage. Pity the rich.
Buy Dan In Real Life
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt, Dianne WiestDirected by Peter Hedges
Aging irresistible pixie Juliette Binoche alights on the life of sad widower Dan (Steve Carell) and he tries fiercely to make us believe this is the best he deserves. Lost in a raucous and Kennedyesque (they play touch football on their broad seaside Rhode Island lawn and dance to Motown, as a family) family that is harder on him than Adam Sandler's is in Punch Drunk Love, (maybe they're the problem), Dan can't catch a break with precocious (of course) daughters who hate him and a love interest (Binoche) who failed to tell him that she was already engaged to his brother (Dane Cook). Anyway, Dan falls in love with Binoche rather than pegging her as a flight risk and superficial as doughnut sugar. The unbearable lightness of a weak script pinned to personalities rather than humans.
This movie's biggest crime is the under-utilization (but then, what could she do?) of Gone Baby Gone's superb Amy Ryan, here playing one of Carell's innumerable and anonymous sibs.
Music by Morten Skage of the Faces Down is like Kimya Dawson's from Juno plus twenty years and a tuning fork and Regina Spektor. (In other words, it's better.)
How it reflects the economy: Market constraints require we settle for less. In this case, that means Juliette Binoche. I would have preferred Dan marry his sister. At least she seems grounded. Maybe next year's big Juno-like social taboo movie will be sibling/sibling dating? It worked in The Hotel New Hampshire. Despite having a landed gentry family with a seaside compound and a steady job with upward mobility, Steve Carell is still stuck with Juliette Binoche in what appears to a caste marriage. Pity the rich.
Buy Dan In Real Life
Labels: Amy Ryan, Dane Cook, Dianne Wiest, Emily Blunt, John Mahoney, Juliette Binoche, MDM, Steve Carell
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