Fresh
Acting is what sustains the unstable plot lines.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001 · 1h 46m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
George Hickenlooper
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- George Hickenlooper Director
- Andy Garcia as Byron
- Julianna Margulies as Dena
- Anjelica Huston as Jennifer Adler
- Olivia Williams as Andrea
- Mick Jagger as Luther
- James Coburn as Alcot
- Susan Barnes as Attractive Woman
- Michael Des Barres as Nigel
- Richard Bradford as Edward Rodgers
- Xander Berkeley as Virgil Koster
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The direction, by George Hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
Pompous and garbled.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
A rare comedy of manners, witty, wicked and worldly, and one of the best movies of the year.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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