Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a bumbling New York sportswriter in a strained marriage with an ambitious, uptight gallery owner named Amanda. Lenny and Amanda try desperately to save their marriage by adopting a boy named Max, who turns out to be inordinately gifted. Despite their attempt to get closer to each other, Lenny and Amanda begin to drift. And things get more complicated when Lenny begins an obsessive hunt to find Max’s birthmother, whom he assumes must be an extraordinary woman.
Personality… nervous, funny, and romantic. Lenny is an uncomplicated man with simple tastes: he likes to spend his Saturday evenings at a baseball game rather than at Manhattan’s hippest restaurant. The only thing that Lenny really wants is a simple, loving relationship – something that he hasn’t been getting from his marriage lately.
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When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
