Minor-key, odd-buddy romance, in which a former heroin addict (Carré) strikes up an unusual affair with her dead lover's gay brother (French singer-songwriter Choisy).
Maybe, once all this is over, they can team up for a remake of some odd couple buddy movie: Tango and Cash, perhaps, or Turner and Hooch.
It's an odd conjunction; buddy movies tend to pitch the goofball against the square, and you could argue that Galifianakis should ideally be bounced off a wall of deadpan — the best of all walls being Charles Grodin, in "Midnight Run".
Katzenberg felt the original treatment was problematic and told Lasseter to reshape Toy Story as more of an odd-couple buddy picture, and suggested they watch some classic buddy movies, such as The Defiant Ones and 48 Hrs., in which two characters with different attitudes are thrown together and have to bond.
And the new USA television show "White Collar" uses the style gap to breathe new life into the odd-couple buddy-cop formula: one sharp, the other flat.
So how good would it be to be a Mayfly hitchhiking on one of their golf bags on Thursday when Woods and Clarke, one of the odder best-buddy pairings in golf, tee off at 1 40 p.m. Eastern for the first round.
I occasionally found it odd that my school buddies took so literally what they saw on the screen and the field, but there was nothing surprising about that because they were not as lucky as I was: they did not have the inside story.
This competition for attention between two supposedly best buddies creates an odd setting for Mr. Clinton's speech to the convention on Monday.
Classic buddy movies -- "The Odd Couple," "Midnight Run" -- are about the friction of opposites succumbing to friendship, or at least the recognition of a common humanity.
He pioneered the buddy picture and the odd-couple romance.
