Paul Giamatti is an actor in a play, “Uncle Vanya” and he is have a hard time getting the character. His agent points him toward an article in The New Yorker about a company that removes a person’s soul and puts it in storage. The rationale is that it won’t get in the way of living a full life. Giamatti does it but the result is less than he hoped for. With no soul, he has no emotional ballast or inertia and he is all over place in the play. This is part of the set up. There is more.
This movie was fiendishly funny. I took Bookzilla and JMan. There were a couple of lines of profanity and a nude model in drawing class viewed briefly, but I think it was okay. Bookzilla got more of the humor than JMan, but he seemed to like it also.
I got some good laughs out of this movie. I heartily recommend it.