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- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 46 m
Summary When a struggling writer (Garcia) is recruited by the head of an elite male escort service (Jagger), he finds himself involved with the wife (Williams) of one of the world's most successful writers (Coburn).
Directed By: George Hickenlooper
Written By: Phillip Jayson Lasker
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 46 m
The Man from Elysian Fields
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8.1
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Summary When a struggling writer (Garcia) is recruited by the head of an elite male escort service (Jagger), he finds himself involved with the wife (Williams) of one of the world's most successful writers (Coburn).
Directed By: George Hickenlooper
Written By: Phillip Jayson Lasker
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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46% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
46% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
This is a grown-up movie, in its humor and in its wisdom about life. You need to have lived a little to understand the complexities of Tobias Allcott, who is played by James Coburn with a pitch-perfect balance between sadness and sardonic wit.
Until its conventional third act, Elysian Fields takes surprising turns. Garcia, Coburn and particularly Jagger surprise throughout.
It's a movie that starts off nicely, offers two marvelous performances (by James Coburn and Mick Jagger) and then slowly, unaccountably loses itself.
The cast--including Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, James Coburn, and Anjelica Huston--keeps this pretty watchable, and casting Mick Jagger as director of the escort service was inspired.
Wonderfully cast but underwhelming and never especially believable.
Somewhere in this movie, amid the ponderous exchanges and unfortunate O. Henry-style coincidences, there's American tragedy.
Manure of a relatively clover-scented variety, George Hickenlooper's The Man From Elysian Fields is at primal odds with itself.
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
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86% Positive
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