

Dan in Real Life
2007-10-26 · 98 min · ★ 6.6
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
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- Directors
- Peter Hedges
- Production companies
- Touchstone Pictures, Focus Features, Jon Shestack Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 25,000,000
- Revenue
- USD 68,474,305
Top Cast
Steve CarellDan
Juliette BinocheMarie
Dane CookMitch
John MahoneyPoppy
Emily BluntRuthie Draper
Alison PillJane
Britt RobertsonCara
Marlene LawstonLilly
Amy RyanEileen
Dianne WiestNana
Norbert Leo ButzClay
Jessica HechtAmy
Frank WoodHoward
Henry Priest MillerWill
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