The Extra Man (2010)
Paul Dano and Kevin Kline in THE EXTRA MAN, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
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Opened: 07/30/2010 Limited
| Laemmle's Fall... | 05/07/2010 - 05/13/2010 | 7 days |
| Screenings | 07/30/2010 | |
| Angelika/NYC | 07/30/2010 - 08/26/2010 | 28 days |
| Sunset 5/LA | 08/06/2010 - 08/26/2010 | 21 days |
| Laemmle's Moni... | 08/06/2010 - 08/19/2010 | 14 days |
| Laemmle's Town... | 08/06/2010 - 08/19/2010 | 14 days |
| Laemmle's Play... | 08/06/2010 - 08/19/2010 | 14 days |
| Laemmle's Clar... | 08/20/2010 - 08/26/2010 | 7 days |
| Laemmle's Fall... | 08/20/2010 - 08/26/2010 | 7 days |
| Cinema Village... | 08/27/2010 |
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Genre: Comedy
Rated: Unrated
Synopsis
A sophisticated and moving comedy, THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), 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 quickly finds a nine-to-five job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes). But it's Louis' new home life that really sparks his imagination. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), 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 hirsute neighbor, from drunken nonagenarians to a shady Swiss hunchback, Louis and Henry form a memorable bond that bridges their differences.
