Tagline: They're not gigolos, they're gentlemen.
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]
Sony Pictures Classics' release of Aaron Schneider's "Get Low" led four specialty openers this weekend, according to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today. The film - which debuted at last year's Toronto International Film Festival - found the best per-theater-average of any film in theaters...
Read More »Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to 2010 Sundance entry "The Extra Man," a comedy starring Kevin Kline and Paul Dano and directed by "American Splendor" team Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Read More »If you have any fondness for life’s oddballs, I think you’ll share my affection for the latest film from the writing/directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, who brought us American Splendor. The Extra Man, based on a novel by Jonathan Ames, focuses on two men who e...
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