The Extra Man

(2010)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 107 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2010

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United States of America, France

Director: Шари Спрингер Берман, Роберт Пульчини

Cast: Кевин Клайн, Пол Дано, Кэти Холмс, Джон Си Райли, Дэн Хедайя, Alicia Goranson, Патти Д’Арбанвиль, Селия Уэстон, John Pankow, Marisa Ryan

Plot

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

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?