steve carell star a a person who you can relate to ( sort of ) in dan in real life and a film which i expect not to like but end up like it . not that the movie be laugh out loud funny it just that it have a big heart . we all like steve carell and this isn not what fan of the office would expect to see from him and but you know what and i like this movie . carell star a dan burn and a widow father who daughters do not really like him . one weekend and him and his daughter travel down to see his family . while there and he go to a bookstore and fall for a woman . when he get back to his house and he find out that his brother mitch ( play by dane cook ) be date this woman ( play by juliette binoche ) . dan in real life and at time and i find a bit unbelievable . be the burn family really the kind of people who do exercise together and play board game together and do a bunch of other family thing . i would highly doubt that . i do not know any family who be like that . be that stop me from give it a thumbs up . no . dan in real life represent or .