Dark Horse is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz.

It stars Justin Bartha, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Jordan Gelber, Donna Murphy, Christopher Walken, Zachary Booth and Aasif Mandvi.

While waiting outside Miranda's house for their first date, Marie (his secretary) runs up and tells him to give up on pursuing the girl as he has no shot, but then he wakes with a start revealing it was a dream.

At several points in the film Marie (his secretary who says she had twin children who would have been Abe's age but died) turns up in unexpected places and talks with him, often to discourage him from pursuing a relationship with Miranda or to take him away.

The places include the parking lot outside the bar where he has just hit Mahmoud, his bedroom where he looks up hepatitis and on a street corner after an argument he had with his mother and brother in his car.

While Miranda has forgotten about their date Abe gives a speech about how he is a dark horse and proposes marriage.

He tears off a small section of wallpaper to reveal his childhood height recorded on the wall by his father with the label Abe, Dad's "Dark Horse".

[6] Solondz, who could not afford to license an episode of Seinfeld for the film, decided to instead write lines for Jason Alexander, Jerry Stiller, and Estelle Harris, and added a laugh track.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Typically misanthropic yet curiously satisfying and incisive, Dark Horse is a movie that preaches to the cynical converted.