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Dan in Real Life (2007)
★ 6.6 · 1,339 ratings on TMDB
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.
DirectorPeter Hedges
The emergence reading
Dan in Real Life keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
