Cyrano de Bergerac goes to the shore for the holidays. We really enjoyed this Steve Carell movie. It was funny and warm, although it follows a well worn path. The hero, Dan, is a widowed advise columnist with three daughters. They are celebrating the holidays with their extended family at the shore. Dan meets and falls for a woman in town who turns out to be Dan's brother's girlfriend. Hilarity ensues. It is all pretty predictable but feels sincere and emotionally real.
The musical background to the movie really complements the film. K went out and ordered the CD.
K and I saw Dan in Real Life in a theater. A first run movie in an actual theater. Amazing!
- J
Update: On rereading this I realized I did not say exactly why I thought it was predictable. Movies about widowed advise columnists that fall in love with the wrong person aren't that common, after all. I meant, for example, that movies about adult children reuniting at the ramshackle home of their childhood have become a cottage industry. One plot turn in this movie occured when the woman realized that the brother's best lines were direct quotes from Dan's book. K and I both remember this exact twist in another movie, but cannot remember which.
- J
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