Phoebe Cates Pictures: Phoebe Cates poses with her daughter, Greta Simone Kline, at "The Extra Man" premiere held at the Village East Cinema on July 19, 2010 in New York City.
Louis Ives is 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 9 to 5 job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary. But, what really sparks Louis' imagination is his new home life. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry Harrison, a penniless, wildly eccentric failed 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. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of urban adventures — encountering everything from a leaping lion to a wildly jealous hirsute neighbor to drunken nonagenarians to a shady Swiss hunchback.
"The Extra Man" opens in theaters nationwide on July 30.
Photo credit: Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos
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