His eldest daughter, Jane (Allison Pill) confronts him and tells that she has noticed his flirting and warns him to stop. During a game of family football, Dan continues to flirt with Marie, and as a result, gets hit on the nose by the ball. Marie gets jealous and joins the floor with Mitch, leading to an upstaging contest between Dan and Marie. However, on Marie's indication that Ruthie is not right for him, Dan feigns interest and starts dancing with Ruthie. While Ruthie turns out to be very hot, Dan isn't too interested. Mitch proposes that they double with him and Marie, and Dan agrees. Dan recalls that when they were kids, Ruthie's nickname was "Pigface" and refuses to go. Dan's mother Nana (Dianne Wiest) announces the she ran into Ruthie Draper (Emily Blunt), an old acquaintance of Dan's, and that she has set up a date between Dan and Ruthie. Over the next few days, the two go back and forth in forbidden love and a few laughs. The family starts liking Marie, while Dan gets envious and starts to behave strangely. Dan tells Marie that they should not mention the bookstore incident to the family. When he gets home, he finds out to his surprise that Marie is his brother Mitch's (Dane Cook) girlfriend, but not before he mentions that he met a girl. On his way back to the house, Dan, an otherwise careful driver, is so engrossed in the memory of Marie that he runs a stop sign and gets a ticket. Dan asks for her number, but Marie refuses, saying that she has just started a new relationship, but then relents and gives Dan her number. Marie, who gets a phone call and starts to leave. The two share an intimate conversation and Dan starts falling for her. When Marie finds out the truth, Dan proposes to make it up to her. To catch her attention, Dan poses as a shop clerk, and convinces her to buy a random selection of books. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie (Juliette Binoche). HuggoĪdvice columnist Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is a widower with three daughters, whom he brings to his parents' vacation house for a family get-together. If those feelings are for Dan, he isn't sure if he could ever hurt his brother by falling for the first supposed love of his life. She learns some information which makes her realize her true feelings. But as the weekend progresses, Marie also gets to know Dan and the entire Burns family better. Because of his feelings, he acts a little unusually, which the rest of the family notices. The more time Dan spends with Marie that weekend, the more he realizes that she could be the one for him. It isn't until later that Dan learns that that relationship is with his womanizing brother Mitch, who seems to love her, and that Marie has been invited to spend the weekend with the clan. They spend a memorable afternoon chatting, although she is up front about not being able to take things further with him because she is in a relationship. There, Dan meets a woman named Marie at a local bookstore. They're heading to Rhode Island for their annual visit with Dan's parents, his several siblings and their respective families at the family home. An advice columnist for the New Jersey Standard, he could use some advice himself, not only in making himself happier, but on how to deal with his three daughters of whom he is overly protective. Although the audience knows the outcome of the film within the first 20 minutes or so, this movie sets a warm, nice feeling in your hearts and sends you home with a nice message of "what true love is" and how we will all some how find it someday.Widowed now for four years, Dan Burns is lonely. The homie cottage in Rhode Island, and the way the fictional family connected on screen, with the games and the close relationships between the different family memebers. But the one thing that really set this movie in aspect for me, was the setting in which the story was based. The characters in the film, were very well developed and fun to watch, as characters in movies should be. But the one thing that really set this movie in aspect for me, was the This movie had one of those classic, predictable story lines where everything in "Movieland" ends up perfectly. This movie had one of those classic, predictable story lines where everything in "Movieland" ends up perfectly.
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