A movie that sets being humanly funny as a challenge and meets it with warmth and modesty.
There is a pointed line near the beginning of Dan in Real Life when the film’s titular hero, played by Steve Carell, first meets Marie (Juliette Binoche) and is smitten with her. She asks him, “Do you have something that is not laugh-out-loud funny or gross-out funny but just human funny?” Initially playing along with her…

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