In every romantic comedy there’s always that scene at the end where the leading man barges through the chapel doors just as the leading lady is about to marry the Wrong Guy.  This movie is about the guy left at the altar.  The wrong guy.  That guy is called the Baxter.  The Baxter is the kind of guy you “settle” for because you can’t be with the one you really love.

 And no one’s ever been more of a Baxter than tax accountant Elliot Sherman (played by writer/director/star Michael Showalter).  Nice but safe, Elliot has been left at the proverbial ‘altar’ more than once.  From high school to college to business school, Elliot always finds himself on the losing end of the love triangle.

 Co-starring Zak Orth, Michael Ian Black, Peter Dinklage, David Wain and Paul Rudd,

THE BAXTER, reminiscent of the classic American romantic comedies of the forties, is a love story where nice guys finish first for once.