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.
Acting
Steve Carell's face does 47 emotions in one breakfast scene.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like siblings destroying each other.
Score
Sondre Lerche's acoustic melancholy perfects every longing glance.
Director
Peter Hedges
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