The Extra Man

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writer: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Shari Springer Berman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, John C. Reilly, Katie Holmes, Marian Seldes, Celia Weston, Patti D'Arbanville, Dan Hedaya
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 2010 5:30 AM
Criticwire: C+
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Synopsis: Louis Ives, a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, leaves his job and heads to Manhattan to become a writer. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry Harrison, a wildly eccentric, but brilliant, playwright who happens to be an “extra man”—a social escort for the wealthy widows of New York’s high society. The two form an unexpected bond. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]

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