On the big screen: The Longest Week

Director: Peter Glanz.

Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman), who’s pushing 40 and mostly unemployed his entire life, experiences an unwelcome wake-up call.

He is unceremoniously cut off by his divorcing parents and summarily evicted from New York’s Hotel Valmont, where he has lived for decades.

With his expense accounts frozen, he’s forced to move in with his well-off painter friend Dylan (Billy Crudup), although he keeps his precarious financial status to himself, explaining rather that his hotel suite is under renovation.

Dylan immediately begins enthusing about Beatrice (Olivia Wilde), an attractive young debutante and model with a taste for Victorian literature whom he’s recently met.

When he’s introduced to Beatrice, Conrad realises she’s the same mysterious woman he met on the subway a day previously, who gave him her phone number.

Although he promises Dylan not to interfere with his friend’s pursuit of Beatrice, Conrad sets up a date with her anyway and they quickly become lovers.

When Dylan discovers this betrayal, he naturally kicks Conrad out of his place.

Now homeless, he moves in with Beatrice, who’s still unaware that his parents have disinherited him.