bruce engelman

Steve Carell nails this part to the tee, and owns this movie. Having lost my own young wife to cancer with three precocious teenagers still living in the home, I can relate completely to the combination of sadness, loneliness and semi-shock when I too, like Dan, suddenly find myself making the sandwiches for the kids lunches. (And, just like Dan, I too was a former newspaper writer and columnist.) Also, as Dan and I would ultimately prove in our lives, there are no perfect fathers... just degrees of "not-so-good dads" to "bad fathers." But we do our best, and with God's help..we somehow survive and somehow make it! And like Dan, I also found love again. This is a great flick, and every actor played their part to the max. This movie makes me cry and laugh every time I see it; and also makes me wonder why there aren't more great films like this made in Hollywood!