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.
These two men, separated in age by more than forty years, develop a volatile mentor/apprentice relationship. (music by) Cinematography by Terry Stacey. 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. Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Klaus Badelt. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), a penniless, wildly eccentric but brilliant playwright. The Extra Man by Indra Anderson eBook 0.99 Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. But it's Louis' new home life that really sparks his imagination. He quickly finds a nine-to-five job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes).
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. But there's a soft landing, a nice ending to this opus all around.A sophisticated and moving comedy, THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. The younger man, though straight, enjoys wearing ladies lingerie while having sex. The older man depends on super-annuated ladies of wealth for his dining out and his winters in Florida. Though they fascinate each other, and unintentionally entertain each other, they can't decide whether or not to be real allies. The kind of face that America just doesn't make anymore.īoth characters have built protective walls around themselves, perhaps necessarily. His new roomie played by Paul Dano has a poignance, a sad yearning that I haven't seen conveyed so well since Timothy Bottoms in "Last Picture Show." Dano has the sort of face you only see nowadays looking at you across time in family pictures from a century ago or more. "They're not gigolos, they're gentlemen."Ī man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.īring Clifton Webb forward 60 years, add wackiness, and you have Kevin Kline as the eccentric bachelor in a rent-stabilized dump on the Upper East Side (yes, there are such flats still).
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