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The Man from Elysian Fields

Name: The Man from Elysian Fields
Released: 2001-09-13T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 5.9

2001 • 106 min • ★ 5.9 (66) • Released

Drama Romance

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

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Original title: The Man from Elysian Fields
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $6,500,000
Revenue: $2,006,391

Reviews & Ratings 1

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Aug 28, 2022 · via TMDB

★ 4.0

At a relatively modest 106 minutes The Man from Elysian Fields is still a little too long – and yet I can see why director George Hickenlooper would hesitate to edit out the scenes where Mick Jagger shares screen time with Anjelica Huston. These scenes add nothing and lead nowhere, but darn it, they have Mick Jagger and Anjelica Huston in them. The problem is that the Jagger character is little more than a narrator, and should exist only to introduce Andy García into the world of male escorting; whatever he does in his spare time, and with whom he does it, has no bearing whatsoever on the plot and is therefore of zero interest to the audience. Anyway, luckily for Andy, though rather unbelievably in general, his experience as a glorified gigolo involves one single solitary customer who, as expected, is rich and lonely, but also very beautiful and about his same age, and to cap it all, married to his hero, played by James Coburn, who not only is quite at peace with his wife procuring herself a sexual surrogate, but also willing to let García help him rewrite his next novel. Uh huh. Improbabilities aside, the whole triangle business is the best part of the movie (with Coburn effortlessly evoking a rugged, Hemingway-esque manliness), and its potential for both dramatic and comedic material renders García’s previously established domestic life disposable were it not that the script needs it to provide the sappy happy ending (and that Hickenlooper couldn’t bear to part even with Julianna Margulies goes a long way in explaining his attachment to Jagger and Huston). The time devoted to either sub-plot would have been better spent monitoring Garcia's progress as a writer. No doubt his bittersweet experiences with Coburn and the latter's wife would provide him with much better material (not to mention a solid tree to lean against, in terms of professional learning) than his previous novel, a sub-Ira Levin thriller called Hitler's Child; however, the characters are authors only nominally, and the extent of their literary collaboration is reduced to substituting one "microcosm" for another (migrant workers instead of Roman slaves).

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Cast 22

Andy Garcia

Byron

Julianna Margulies

Dena

Anjelica Huston

Jennifer Adler

Olivia Williams

Andrea

Mick Jagger

Luther

James Coburn

Alcot

Susan Barnes

Attractive Woman

Michael Des Barres

Nigel

Richard Bradford

Edward Rodgers

Xander Berkeley

Virgil Koster

Sherman Howard

Paul Pearson

Joe Santos

Domenico

Tracey Walter

Bartender

Elisa Gallay

Lottie

Rosalind Chao

Female Customer

Marianne Muellerleile

Obnoxious Lady

Ezra Buzzington

Construction Forman

Mark Steger

Performance Artist

Joe Drago

Chauffer

Rodney Bingenheimer

Self (uncredited)

Greg Bronson

Upscale Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

John Hickenlooper

Worker in Pasadena (uncredited)

Crew 11

Kramer Morgenthau

Director of Photography

George Hickenlooper

Director

Heidi Levitt

Casting

Glenn S. Gainor

Co-Producer

Tony Vitale

Co-Producer

Joe Drago

Executive Producer

Morris Ruskin

Executive Producer

Paul Brooks

Executive Producer

Andrew Pfeffer

Producer

Andy Garcia

Producer

Anthony Marinelli

Original Music Composer

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US Release Dates 1

Sep 13, 2001

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