多余的人

因为自己小小的特殊癖好被人发现，艾维斯（保罗·达诺 Paul Dano 饰）不得不离开了自己热爱的工作岗位，希望改头换面的他来到了纽约，并很快就找到了一份稳定的工作。表面上看来，艾维斯的新生活过得风生水起，但真实的情况，却只有他自己心里清楚。 　　艾维斯住在一幢破旧的公寓里，和室友哈里森（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）共同生活。哈里森是一个十足的怪咖，他虽然博学多闻才华横溢，却总热衷于一些稀奇古怪的事情，行为举止更是疯疯癫癫，但也只有哈里森知道，在这个城市里，哪里正发生着真正有趣的事情。在哈里森的带领下，艾维斯终于见识到了自己一直以来梦寐以求的生活，而在一次又一次的放浪形骸中，他和哈里森之间也产生了坚固的友谊。Louis, a young teacher enamored of the age of F. Scott Fitzgerald, loses his job when he's caught trying on a bra he finds in a campus office. He decides to go to New York City to find himself and to be a writer. He answers an ad for a housemate placed by the eccentric and opinionated Henry Harrison; an odd-couple relationship starts. Louis gets a job selling advertising for a green magazine and fancies Mary, a co-worker. He meets Henry's neighbor, the hirsute Gershon, and Henry offers Paul schooling in the gentleman's world of being an "extra man" - a hired companion, a gigolo - for older women. Can Louis sort out these varied worlds as well as his own expectations?