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- 2010
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 2010
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Directed By: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Written By: Jonathan Ames, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
- 2010
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 2010
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
The Extra Man
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5.3
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Summary A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Directed By: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Written By: Jonathan Ames, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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13 Reviews
38% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
56
50% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
38% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
You'll either find The Extra Man utterly charming or thoroughly mystifying, but either way Kevin Kline, playing a community-theater version of himself, with all the foppishness and Shakespearean pretension but half the talent and none of the luck, inhabits its peculiar soul.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.3
45% Positive
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5 Ratings
27% Mixed
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3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.3
45% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
27% Mixed
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3 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
This was absolutely terrific. It could be compared to a Wes Anderson film that isn't trying to be so cool. The main characters are expertly written and acted and the whole thing is edited perfectly. We saw this in an indie theatre and the whole audience was thrilled by this film. Audiences these days are expecting crazy action or other ploys to constantly keep them interested but this film is made the old fashioned way with great acting, writing, wit and storytelling.
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I rented this to watch Kevin Kline and discovered Paul Dano. He's the one you can't take your eyes off of, playing a really quirky character without a single wrong move. Don't expect the ending to wrap things up, however. There is no ending. It just sort of comes to a stop, nothing resolved, no pointing to any kind of future. And still I was oddly captivated.
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The Extra Man is kooky to a fault, and Dano is a major drag, with his soft voice and blank expression. But Kline gives a wild, wonderful performance, reminiscent of his work on "A Fish Called Wanda."
Kline has a ball, while Dano turns in a pitch-perfect performance. He never mocks his character's desires, or undersells his fears.
Everyone in the film is an uninteresting grotesque.
What feels enjoyably outré in the 1998 coming-of-age novel by Jonathan Ames (creator of HBO's Bored to Death) feels oppressively outré in this deadened, literal adaptation.
The film knocks itself unconscious trying to be whimsical and offbeat, but is so contrived that it is as embarrassing as it is unfunny.
The trailer made this film look like a must-see, but I was disappointed by it. It's definitely quirky and weird, which I usually appreciate, but it's just to vanilla. It sits there, without much punch to it. And what the hell did the director do to John C. Reilly's voice? It didn't make a lot of sense to me. At first, I thought it might be going for a new "Harold & Maude" thing, but no.
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The Extra Man is ridiculous. Did someone sketch out the plot and scenes on scratch paper in a library cubicle and then stop after the first draft? It is disjointed, choppy, and just an all around complete mess.
Kevin Kline goes back in eccentric mode (think Otto from A Fish Called Wanda) but his eccentricities amount to nothing. He plays a modern day gentleman who has no particular employment except accompanying elderly women to formal dinner functions. He makes it clear he is not a gigolo, but an â
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Production Company
3 Arts Entertainment,
Likely Story,
Wild Bunch
Release Date Jul 30, 2010
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A sexless new comedy
