Dan, Steve Carell, the widower advice-columnist with 3 unruly girls to take care of is taking his girls to a family reunion on a beautiful old house on the Rhode Island coast. Dan is so pent-up and frazzled from so much responsibility that he is immediately kicked out by his Mother, Diane Weist, and drives to the local book store to hang out. He meets and connects with a beautiful woman, Juliet Binoche, and after getting her number goes home to find out that she is his brother's new girlfriend whose name is Mitch (Dane Cook). Everyone is crazy about her, but Dan is only crazed with unfulfilled jealousy and hesitant resignation over his plight. The primary irony in the story is how Dan plays a newspaper columnist who gives out parenting advice but cannot seem to follow it in raising his daughters. Each girl is challenged in different ways by Dan’s omnipresence in their lives with middle daughter Cara most pained over his intrusion in her budding romance with a smitten classmate.  It’s good comedy flick for those who need to laugh a bit, I highly recommend it to you and your friends.