On the movie spectrum, there are the awesome, award-caliber films on one end, the truly awful ones on the other end, and then, somewhere in the middle, there are the merely pleasant ones — movies with no great agenda other than to provide a diversion for a couple hours.
Dan in Real Life is one of those middle-of-the-road pictures, and it’s meant as no slight to call it pleasant.
Actually, the movie could have been much worse with less talented creative folks involved. Continue reading