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The Extra Man
Directed by
Robert Pulcini
,
Shari Springer Berman
R
2010
1h 47m
Comedy
5.8
40%
37%
5.8
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A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
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Cast of The Extra Man
Kevin Kline
Henry Harrison
Paul Dano
Louis Ives
Katie Holmes
Mary Powell
John C. Reilly
Gershon Gruen
Dan Hedaya
Aresh
Alicia Goranson
Sandra
Patti D'Arbanville
Katherine Hart
Celia Weston
Meredith Lagerfeld
John Pankow
George
Marisa Ryan
Tanya
Marian Seldes
Vivian Cudlip
Lynn Cohen
Lois Huber
Jason Butler Harner
Otto Bellman
Jackie Hoffman
Pushy Woman
Alex Burns
Brad
Justis Bolding
Wine Pourer
Philip Carlson
Preacher
Graeme Malcolm
English Narrator (voice)
Lewis Payton, Jr.
Usher
Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs
Diva
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The Extra Man Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
[A] drearily quirky mess.
Detroit News
Tom Long
An entertaining kinky kick of a movie, a lightweight delight about dreamers and dilettantes.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
The Extra Man is a disappointment coming from Berman and Pulcini, whose American Splendor was an imaginative biopic about the late comic-book author Harvey Pekar.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Dano and Kline are very fine performers. So why is this comedy such a chore? The answer appears to be whimsy overload.
Washington Post
Sean O'Connell
Swifter comedic timing and a clearer narrative thread might have helped center this peculiar adaptation of Jonathan Ames's 1998 novel of the same name. Then again, maybe not.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Pulcini & Berman's work cuts its own path through the archetypes and delivers a unique comedy in the process.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Some actors are dinner. Kevin Kline is dessert, and his comic brio saves the film version of The Extra Man from its limitations.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie aggressively pushes its whimsicality to the point where it feels less whimsical than just aggressive.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Adapted from the Jonathan Ames novel, the film is too precious around the edges, but it gets somewhere.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Kevin Kline tends to give bravura performances even when he's not playing bravura characters.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
I felt the whole movie was kind of mannered and labored.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The picture revels in its own unconventionality, The Extra Man a consistently engaging curiosity even when some of its more important pieces don't quite live up to the glorious oddities surrounding them.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Henry is a man who knows how to live, and Kline welcomes us into the Russian Tea Room of his mind.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Darlings, there's nothing quite so tragique as a boring eccentric.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's relentlessly unwacky and even quietly subversive.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Kline is his usual engaging self but it's a supporting role he's playing by virtue of the script, but also Mr. Dano's presence, in this potent charmer of a film.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Kline has a ball, while Dano turns in a pitch-perfect performance. He never mocks his character's desires, or undersells his fears.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
For all its flighty charms, The Extra Man never really lands.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Kline gives a wild, wonderful performance, reminiscent of his work on A Fish Called Wanda.
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