'Thanks For Sharing' International Trailer: Mark Ruffalo, Sex Addict

In The Avengers, Mark Ruffalo played a seemingly mild-mannered man waging a constant internal battle against his predilection for anger. In the upcoming Thanks for Sharing, he plays a guy who's a lot like that, only he's fighting sex addition, not anger issues. And Pepper Potts — I'm sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow — is along for the ride.

Adam (Ruffalo) is five years sex-sober when he meets and falls for beautiful Phoebe (Paltrow). Encouraged by his pals at the sex-addiction group (including Tim Robbins), he pursues a relationship with her, struggling to maintain a healthy romance without spiraling into self-destructive behavior.

Thanks for Sharing was directed by The Kids Are All Right scribe Stuart Blumberg, so it's no surprise that there's a sweet, honest feel to the proceedings. Check out the new trailer after the jump.

Hulk and Pepper seem to be in fine form as always, but the subplot featuring Josh Gad and Alecia Moore (a.k.a. Pink) looks far more fun and unusual to me. Indeed, she's drawn tons of compliments on the festival circuit for her performance here — an especially impressive accomplishment when she's going head-to-head with seasoned stars like Ruffalo, Paltrow, and Robbins.

Thanks for Sharing opens September 20. Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit, and Carol Kane also star.

On the surface Adam (Mark Ruffalo), an over-achieving environmental consultant, Mike (Tim Robbins), a long-married small-business owner, and Neil (Josh Gad), a wisecracking emergency-room doctor, have little in common. But all are in different stages of dealing with addiction. Confident and successful in his career, Adam is afraid to allow love back into his life, even if that means losing a chance to start over with smart, beautiful and accomplished Phoebe (Gwyneth Paltrow); Mike's efforts to control his wife, Katie (Joely Richardson), and son, Danny (Patrick Fugit), as tightly as he does his impulses are tearing the family apart; and Neil is still deeply in denial when befriended by Dede (Alecia Moore), who has just begun to take her own small steps back to health. As they navigate the rocky shores of recovery, Adam, Mike and Neil become a family that encourages, infuriates and applauds each other on the journey toward a new life.