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  • The Extra Man

  • Format: DVD
  • Rated: R
  • Release Date: 16/11/2010
The Extra Man

The Extra Man

  • Format: DVD
  • Rated: R
  • Release Date: 16/11/2010
  • DVD 
    Price: USD $15.48

    Product Notes

    A sophisticated and moving comedy, THE EXTRA MAN 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 prep school, Louis heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He quickly finds a nine-to-five job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary. But it's Louis' new home life that really sparks his imagination. 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. Through a series of urban adventures where they encounter everything from a leaping lion to a wildly jealous neighbor, from drunken nonagenarians to a shady Swiss hunchback, Louis and Henry form a memorable bond that bridges their differences. Directed by Robert Pulcini. Starring Paul Dano, Kevin Kline, Katie Holmes.