THE EXTRA MAN

 

Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes
Magnolia Pictures;
Directed by Robert Pulcini
and Shari Springer Berman
Rated R; 108 minutes; 2010

 
A sophisticated and moving comedy, this film follows Louis Ives, a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, Louis heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry Harrison, a penniless, wildly eccentric but brilliant playwright. When Henry's not dancing alone to obscure music or singing operettas, he's performing - with great panache - the duties of an "extra man", a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. These two men, separated in age by more than forty years, develop a volatile mentor/apprentice relationship.

 


 


 

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