The last gentleman

This article describes the film from 2010. For the TV series from 2012, see Parade's End - The Last Gentleman . For the 1997 film, see Eve and the Last Gentleman .

Movie
German title	The last gentleman
Original title	The Extra Man
Country of production	United States of France
original language	English
Publishing year	2010
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
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Director	Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini
script	Robert Pulcini Jonathan Ames Shari Springer Berman
production	Anthony Bregman Stephanie Davis
music	Klaus Badelt
camera	Terry Stacey
cut	Robert Pulcini
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Kevin Kline : Henry Harrison Paul Dano : Louis Ives Katie Holmes : Mary Powell John C. Reilly : Gershon Gruen Patti D'Arbanville : Katherine Hart Alicia Goranson : Sandra Marian Seldes : Vivian Cudlip Celia Weston : Meredith Lagerfeld Dan Hedaya : Aresh Jason Butler Harner : Otto Bellman
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The Last Gentleman (Original Title: The Extra Man ) is an American-French comedy by the directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini from 2010 , based on the novel The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames .

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Shy, lonely, and romantic, Louis Ives teaches literature at Princeton . Due to the college's austerity measures, he loses his job and the apartment that goes with it. He travels to New York to become a writer and finds a room to sublet through a newspaper advertisement. The landlord of the slightly shabby apartment is the aging Henry Harrison, an impoverished, unsuccessful, eccentric lyric poet who also makes a living accompanying rich, old women. Louis finds a job with an environmental magazine, where he meets Mary, who is out of reach for him. He tries to get closer to her by cross-dressing . A friendship slowly develops between the two unequal and self-struggling flatmates, which in the end also includes the odd neighbor Gershon.

production

The film was shot in New York City between February and April 2009. It premiered on January 25, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival . It was released in US cinemas on July 30, 2010. In Germany, it was shown for the first time on October 5, 2010 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The German DVD launch was on April 7, 2011.

criticism

The film mostly garnered mixed to negative reviews. According to the Rotten Tomatoes site , it has a rate of 43% (rot / rot), a value of 5.8 / 10 on the Internet Movie Database , and Metacritic gives a Metascore of 56 out of 100 (as of September 2012).

"The grandiose, intelligently written satire takes the side of eccentric eccentrics and pays homage to the Upper East Side of New York."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Extra Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (English)
• The Extra Man at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• The Extra Man at Metacritic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for The Last Gentleman . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 991 V).
2. ↑ The last gentleman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .