Dan in Real Life

Watch these movies.

Dan in Real Life, which is a very Thanksgiving-centric movie.

And then Silver Linings Playbook.

And then lastly, I think any of these work for the holidays, but specifically for Halloween and Thanksgiving, you got to go with the original animated Charlie Brown, both The Great Pumpkin and The Thanksgiving.

Danger zone.

All right, number four for me is Dan in Real Life.

This is a Steve Carell movie, I'd say mid-2000s.

I've got a few from this era too.

It just didn't pip Reality Bites because I feel like Reality Bites has a lot more to it.

But I like that movie and I like the soundtrack.

But I already had a mid-2000s with Dan in real life, so I felt like it kind of had covered that ground.

So that's why it's an honourable mention.

I like that.

Diane Wiest was Louise, Edward Scissorhands, The Lost Boys, Dan in Real Life.

Dan Futterman was Val, The Fisher King, Enough, When Trumpets Fade.

Calista Flockhart was Barbie, Barbara, it's Barbara.

[gasps] Yes.

Dan in Real Life.

Okay, I've never seen it.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, should I write that down?

Yeah, yeah, you gotta watch it.

Dan in Real Life, You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, and then October Sky.

Those are the four movies I wanna make sure I watch between now and Thanksgiving.

He won for both of those.

Butz's film roles have included Went to Coney Island, On a Mission from God, Be Back by Five, and And west of here, he was in Dan in Real Life about a widower with three daughters.

He was Dan in that movie.

Number three, Norbert Leo Butz.

Yeah.

And then he, uh, he wrote, uh, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and now he, his first directorial thing was Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, and now this.

Pieces of April is what I was thinking, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It has to do with Valentine's Day, because the Valentine's Day film of 2027 will be Remain, a new supernatural romance thriller from M.

Night Shyamalan, co-penned by Nicholas Sparks.

I love it.

It's just announced that Warner Brothers is developing a reboot of Get Smart starring John Mulaney.

Now, John Mulaney has not starred in very many movies.

In fact, I would argue his most prominent role is as Spider-Pig in the Spider-Verse films.

Okay.

But we were talking about this beforehand because one of my movies that yours was more like on the comedy side, mine was more on the serious side.

It was Dan in Real Life.

Yeah.

And I feel like it almost gives that vibe where it's like Dan in Real Life, I would say, has funny moments, but also has very serious moments.

Yeah, definitely.

I think so.

Fred Claus came out the 9th.

Dan in Real Life I did not see.

Saw 4 I did not see in theaters.

So looking at this, The Mist was November.