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The Man from Elysian Fields

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.

Release Date : 2001-09-13

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : TVA InternationalCineSon EntertainmentFireworks PicturesGold Circle FilmsPfilmcoShoreline Entertainment

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Byron

Original Name : Andy García

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dena

Original Name : Julianna Margulies

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jennifer Adler

Original Name : Anjelica Huston

Gender : Female

Character Name : Andrea

Original Name : Olivia Williams

Gender : Female

Character Name : Luther

Original Name : Mick Jagger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alcot

Original Name : James Coburn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Attractive Woman

Original Name : Susan Barnes

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nigel

Original Name : Michael Des Barres

Gender : Male

Character Name : Edward Rodgers

Original Name : Richard Bradford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Virgil Koster

Original Name : Xander Berkeley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Pearson

Original Name : Sherman Howard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Domenico

Original Name : Joe Santos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender

Original Name : Tracey Walter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Receptionist

Original Name : Asha Siewkumar

Gender : Female

Character Name : Restaurant Patron

Original Name : Kerry Li

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lottie

Original Name : Elisa Gallay

Gender : Female

Character Name : Restaurant Patron

Original Name : Laura Meshell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Customer

Original Name : Rosalind Chao

Gender : Female

Character Name : Performance Artist

Original Name : Hannah Sim

Gender : Female

Character Name : Yasmin

Original Name : Yasmin D'Mello

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georgette

Original Name : Sonia Sanz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Obnoxious Lady

Original Name : Marianne Muellerleile

Gender : Female

Character Name : Street Car Vendor

Original Name : Tommy Perna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Construction Forman

Original Name : Ezra Buzzington

Gender : Male

Character Name : Performance Artist

Original Name : Mark Steger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chauffer

Original Name : Joe Drago

Gender : Male

Character Name : Car Valet

Original Name : Michael Hughes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Jazz Singer

Original Name : Julian Fleisher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Opera Singer

Original Name : Joseph Paur

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (uncredited)

Original Name : Rodney Bingenheimer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Upscale Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Greg Bronson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Worker in Pasadena (uncredited)

Original Name : John Hickenlooper

Gender : Male

Reviews

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2022-09-03

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).