![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Harrison has found a venue for playing the role of an imaginary aristocrat. Henry and Louis are almost too perfect a pair – the father and the son, the master and the apprentice – two nostalgic literati whose personal eccentricities have driven them to the comfort of literary fiction, and they try to live out these fictional mannerisms in the real world. Kline is delightful as the foppish Henry Harrison, a man whose careful enunciation and snobbish adherence to high tastes hides a lonely life of impoverished solitude. ![]() The room is let by Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), an English teacher at Queens College who clings to a sense of aristocracy and the values of the closed chapters of a more eloquent, styled, and verbose past. Louis Ives is a young, nerdy high school literature teacher who is let go from his job at an uppity New England prep school and decides to head to New York to “find himself.” There, a newspaper ad advertising a room for a “gentleman” attracts his attention. Despite its colorful characterizations and quirky, fresh sense of humor, there’s really only one idea bouncing around in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s movie The Extra Man: what if you took two literary dandies styled after the novels of the early 20 th century and dropped them in the contemporary world? That’s the premise of the new comedy, opening at the Angelika Film Center, which plays out like an elaborate English major’s joke. ![]()
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