The Plus-One

<p>The Plus-One is about life on the periphery of fame but it's also a compelling family drama a comic coming-of-age tale and a fizzy musical memoir set during the final throes of the pre-digital 20th century. Starting in the backseat of Courtney Love's limo and then shifting deeper into the past The Plus-One is the story of David Klein a music-obsessed bumbler finally granted the backstage access he craves and determined to make the most of it-even if that means being dissed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Marilyn Manson in the same epic mortifying night. Whether he's singing bossa nova with Philip Seymour Hoffman stealing a woman's shoe with a just-pre-fame Johnny Depp or sharing a life-changing cigarette break with Lady Gaga The Plus-One is told with a blend of acid wit and warm humanity.Alternating among celebrity encounters-with such pop culture icons as Winona Ryder Ringo Starr Bono Arthur Miller Phil Spector and Tom Petty-are sharp-eyed recollections of long-gone demimondes: 1970s suburbia AIDS-era New York City and the workaday world of '90s office culture that blinked into existence in the hangover of those glitzy nights out. Throughout a picture emerges of a young man learning to quit measuring himself against his own life's famous guest stars and settle in to growing up.</p><p></p>