Dan in Real Life
Something's happening to Dan. It's confusing. It's awkward. It's family.
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.
- Director
- Peter Hedges
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $68M
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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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Box Office & Release
Dan in Real Life returned 2.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $68M
- Release date
- Oct 26, 2007
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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