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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Andy Garcia & Mick Jagger | |
Performer: | Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, James Coburn & Anjelica Huston | |
Directed by | George Hickenlooper | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Jayson Lasker | |
Composition by | Anthony Marinelli | |
Produced by | Donald Zuckerman, Andrew Pfeffer & Andy Garcia | |
Director of Photography: | Kramer Morgenthau |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
...a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rating: 3/5 --
Smart and full of sharply drawn characters and wonderfully snappy dialogue.
Full Review
Film Threat
Rating: 6/10 --
Best of all is Garcia, who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man.
Planet S Magazine
...When Mr. Coburn is in full billy-goat bluster or Mr. Jagger is purring in his snug designer suits, THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS has a raffish, unpredictable charm...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
The direction, by George Hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism.
Orlando Sentinel
This sharply scripted Hollywood morality tale provides Andy Garcia one of his best roles in years.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured.
Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
In this sophisticated saga, Andy Garcia (who also produced) plays a struggling author who reluctantly (at first) takes a job as a high-priced male escort to support his family. Rock icon Mick Jagger is Luther, his suave, enigmatic employer, and ex-E.R. star Julianna Margulies plays the wife kept waiting at home. It's a classic morality play given a modern twist as Byron (Garcia) winds up hired by the beautiful young wife (Olivia Williams) of famous, terminally old writer Tobias Alcott (James Coburn). Mr. Alcott is okay with the arrangement and even takes a shine to his wife's new "friend." Soon Byron is a near-permanent resident at their decaying mansion, helping Tobias finish his final novel in addition to bedding his wife. But if he thinks his ship has come in, Byron has some lessons to learn about a gigolo's place in the world. Lush cinematography and profound, witty dialogue are key here, with director Hickenlooper making good use of color and composition to enhance the story. Performances are all fine, but the show is stolen by Jagger and Coburn. One campily posh, the other vibrantly crusty, the film lights up with old-school majesty whenever either is onscreen.