The Man From Elysian Fields

– A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 46 Minutes
Release Year:
2001
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

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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Producing Country:
USA
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) - Trailer

Release Date:

28 Nov 2002

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

George Hickenlooper

Writer:

Phillip Jayson Lasker

Main Actors:

Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams

Plot:

Byron Tiller, happily married with a young child, is a writer whose last novel has ended up in the remainder bins. Down on his luck and struggling to make ends meet, he keeps bashing away, refusing to admit that perhaps he is not that good. One day, at wit's end and feeling sorry for himself, he meets someone who has actually read his book: a rather elegant looking Englishman who introduces himself as Luther Fox. Luther runs an escort agency Elysian Fields, which provides extremely wealthy women with attractive, intelligent dates. Desperate for any job- and Luther guarantees good pay and convinces him that it can be only temporary -Byron reluctantly agrees, keeping the whole thing hidden from his wife. He soon finds himself face-to-face with an extremely attractive woman, whose aging husband is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist grappling with a novel that may be his last. Before long, Byron finds himself immersed in a world that he finds almost impossible to believe and even harder to explain.

Gross profit:

$1,288,188

Production:

Fireworks Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
Metacritic:
57%