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A preview of the story and characters from “The Extra Man.”

When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, Louis (Paul Dano), heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He quickly finds a nine-to-five job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes). But it’s Louis’ new home life that really sparks his imagination. He rents a room in the ramshackle apartment of Henry (Kevin Kline), a penniless, wildly eccentric but brilliant playwright. When Henry’s not dancing alone to obscure music or singing operettas, he’s performing – with great panache – the duties of an “extra man”, a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society.

A terrible accident kills Charlie’s younger brother and leaves him wounded. The outside world can’t see Charlie’s wounds, lying both in the body and soul, leaving him grieving for his brother and the life he’ll never have. Charlie vows to make it up not his brother, and becomes a loner to much of the world, spending every available moment with his dead brother. But when a female classmate returns to their town, Charlie is torn between what has happened with his brother, and what could be with this girl.

Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves — and their humans.