MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: George Hickenlooper directs this psychological drama about an impoverished writer lost in a world of money, power, and male escorts. Though happily married with a young child, Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) is struggling to make ends meet as a novelist. His last work, called 'Hitler's Child,' had an ignoble run in the bookstore bargain bins and his editor is not interested in his latest work about migrant workers. One day, he is approached by a dapper Brit named Luther Fox (Mick Jagger) who actually read Tiller's last opus. Luther explains that he runs an escort agency named Elysian Fields, which caters to rich women looking for intelligent companionship. Desperate for any kind of income source, Tiller takes the job while keeping the whole thing a secret from his loving wife (Julianna Margulies). He soon is rubbing elbows with the beautiful wife (Olivia Williams) of an aging Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Gradually, Tiller finds himself immersed in this strange new world that he cannot quite understand, much less explain to his spouse. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
• Cast: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, James Coburn, Michael Des Barres, Richard Bradford, Anjelica Huston, Xander Berkeley, Sherman Howard, Joe Santos, Susan Barnes, Tracey Walter, Asha Siewkumar, Kerry Li, Laura Meshell, Rosalind Chao, Elisa Gallay, Tommy Perna, Yasmin D'Mello, Sonia Sanz, Marianne Muellerleile, Ezra Buzzington, Hannah Sim, Mark Steger, Joe Drago, Michael Hughes, Julian Fleischer, Joseph Paur, Rodney Bingenheimer, Joseph Della Sorte, Franckie Diago, John Hickenlooper, Eddie Santiago, Jan Triska, J.B. White, George Hickenlooper
• Director: George Hickenlooper
• Runtime: 1:45
• Media Format: Movie