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The Man from Elysian Fields

2001 · 106 min · Director: George Hickenlooper ★ IMDb 6.6 · 4,780 ratings

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Byron Tiller, happily married with a young child, is a writer whose last novel has ended up in the remainder bins. Down on his luck and struggling to make ends meet, he keeps bashing away, refusing to admit that perhaps he is not that good. One day, at wit's end and feeling sorry for himself, he meets someone who has actually read his book: a rather elegant looking Englishman who introduces himself as Luther Fox. Luther runs an escort agency Elysian Fields, which provides extremely wealthy women with attractive, intelligent dates. Desperate for any job- and Luther guarantees good pay and convinces him that it can be only temporary -Byron reluctantly agrees, keeping the whole thing hidden from his wife. He soon finds himself face-to-face with an extremely attractive woman, whose aging husband is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist grappling with a novel that may be his last. Before long, Byron finds himself immersed in a world that he finds almost impossible to believe and even harder to explain.

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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Melancholy 25%, Love 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Melancholy, Love. Genres: Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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Cast

Anjelica Huston

Jennifer Adler

Mick Jagger

Luther

Susan Barnes

Attractive Woman

Richard Bradford

Edward Rodgers

Xander Berkeley

Virgil Koster

Sherman Howard

Paul Pearson

JS
Joe Santos

Domenico

Tracey Walter

Bartender

AS
Asha Siewkumar

Receptionist

KL
Kerry Li

Restaurant Patron

EG
Elisa Gallay

Lottie

LM
Laura Meshell

Restaurant Patron

Rosalind Chao

Female Customer

HS
Hannah Sim

Performance Artist

YD
Yasmin D'Mello

Yasmin

Details

Directed by
George Hickenlooper
Written by
Phillip Jayson Lasker
Type
Movies
Released
2001
Runtime
106 min
Country
United States
Genres
Drama, Romance
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.6 · 4,780 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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