Though based on real people and events, the movie plays as a dry comedy about an exceedingly odd couple bound by a common goal.

It had been, she thought, exceedingly odd for a dream.

So deeply, in fact, that I am willing to overlook your exceedingly odd behavior in the matter.

It was exceedingly odd that she should care what this unknown man thought of her.

There was something exceedingly odd about her, and in a moment Kim realized what it was: she wasn't ugly.

To the uninitiated, it may seem exceedingly odd - daft, perhaps?

And now something exceedingly odd was happening, something she never would have expected in a thousand years.

Then he developed the exceedingly odd ability to vibrate his eyeballs.

Ellie glanced at him and frowned, which struck Louis as exceedingly odd.

In America it is exceedingly odd not to have an automobile.