The read
Every source lands within 3 points of the others, across 1,400 audience votes. Scores higher than 73% of the 2,391 2000s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes65%
Metacritic65/100
1,394 audience votes
Key crew
- Pierce GardnerScreenplay
- Peter HedgesScreenplay
- Peter HedgesDirector
- Sondre LercheOriginal Music Composer
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
Stills
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Themes
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