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
• Criticwire: C+
• On The Web IMDB Entry

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]