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Extra Man (The)
- Director: Shari Springer Berman; Robert Pulcini
- Writer: Robert Pulcini; Jonathan Ames
- Producer: Jonathan Ames; Stefanie Azpiazu
CGiii Comment
This seems to have slipped under the radar - wonderfully quirky, quirkily deadpan.
Watch - it will make you smile.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Louis, a young teacher enamored of the age of F. Scott Fitzgerald, loses his job when he's caught trying on a bra he finds in a campus office. He decides to go to New York City to find himself and to be a writer. He answers an ad for a housemate placed by the eccentric and opinionated Henry Harrison; an odd-couple relationship starts. Louis gets a job selling advertising for a green magazine and fancies Mary, a co-worker. He meets Henry's neighbor, the hirsute Gershon, and Henry offers Paul schooling in the gentleman's world of being an "extra man" - a hired companion, a gigolo - for older women. Can Louis sort out these varied worlds as well as his own expectations?
Cast & Characters
Katie Holmes as Mary Powell;
John C. Reilly as Gershon Gruen;
Kevin Kline as Henry Harrison;
Paul Dano as Louis Ives;
Dan Hedaya as Aresh;
Alicia Goranson as Sandra;
Patti D'Arbanville as Katherine Hart;
Celia Weston as Meredith Lagerfeld;
Jason Butler Harner as Otto Bellman;
John Pankow as George;
Marisa Ryan as Tanya;
Lynn Cohen as Lois Huber;
Marian Seldes as Vivian Cudlip;
Alex Burns as Brad;
Justis Bolding