The Man from Elysian Fields

  • Drama
  • Romance
9/13/2001
106

Storyline

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.

Revenue:
$2,006,391
Budget:
$6,500,000

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  • tmdb28039023

    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 glorifi...

    August 28, 2022

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