SYNOPSIS
The Extra Man. Louis Ives (Paul Dano) is an idealistic high school English teacher, who fancies himself a protagonist in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. After being fired from his position for acting on a fantasy by trying on ladies underwear in the teachers lounge, Louis moves into Manhattan with Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline, an aristocratic playwright, who is eccentric to say the least, in his cramped and dingy one bedroom apartment. He gets a job selling ad space in an environmental magazine, and falls for his hyper-vegan coworker, Mary (Katie Holmes). However, he is unable to charm her, and sinks into introversion.