Today is day one. This was the official website for the 2005 film, The Baxter. But just as he's about to hear wedding bells, her hunky, long-lost high school sweetheart Bradley Lake (Justin Theroux) turns up out of the blue, triggering Elliot's fears of yet another colossal dumping. Still, having Ebert and The Other Guy talking about your film is always a career moment even when they both agreed that "Michael Showalter was miscast." But hey, people said the same thing about Brando at first. I am in Seattle right now, where the movie will be opening on the 16th, last night I had a great screening at the 7 Gables Movie Theater. Co-starring Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Williams and Justin Theroux, the film is set to open in the summer of 2005 through IFC Films.Few genres are as formula-bound as the romantic comedy, and The Baxter's funniest moments goof irreverently on the genre's clichés, but for much of its duration, Showalter can't seem to decide whether to satirize those conventions or follow them in a slightly different form.
The Baxter is the kind of guy you "settle" for because you can't be with the one you really love.Actually, there aren't any. Baxter is a 1989 French horror film directed by Jérôme Boivin. There's many kinds of peanut butter See? With Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Williams. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves.
Like, if you have back pain, you'll be cured just by listening to his voice.There's also a hilarious supporting performance by Peter Dinklage, as a wedding planner named Benson Hedges. Opening day. Its been 3 years. Synopsis. But when her high-school honey Bradley (Justin Theroux) turns up, she forgets all her reasons for wanting to marry Elliot, if there are any.As Elliot struggles to assert himself for the first time, a series of escalating comic events are set in motion, until finally, with Cecil's help, he learns how to step into center stage in his own life and leave Baxter-hood behind forever.And no one's ever been more of a Baxter than tax accountant Elliot Sherman (played by writer/director/star Michael Showalter). I'm trying to think of the name of the baxter in "The Graduate."The Baxter opens with a scene mirroring the famed ending of The Graduate, in which Dustin Hoffman interrupts Katharine Ross' wedding to some anonymous blueblood and spirits her away on a magical public-bus ride to uncertainty. Always, 10 or 15 years behind the trends. He has a little routine with cute guys on a city sidewalk that is like a meditation on hope and lust. That's so like me. Like Like. A baxter (which is a term invented by and for this movie) is the nice but underwhelming guy that the leading lady in romantic comedies dumps for the leading man.
Featured Movie News. Showalter's comedy asks why Baxters can't be romantic leads, then inadvertently provides an all-too-convincing answer at feature length.Co-starring Zak Orth, Michael Ian Black, Peter Dinklage, David Wain and Paul Rudd, THE BAXTER, reminiscent of the classic American romantic comedies of the forties, is a love story where nice guys finish first for once.So why isn't The Baxter an unqualified triumph? Plot.