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NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,288,188
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CONSENSUS
This story about a gigolo isn't plausible or compelling enough.
CAST & CREW
Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies
Directed by George Hickenlooper
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SYNOPSIS
THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS is a daring and stylish morality tale featuring seductive star turns and brilliant, biting dialogue. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for language and sexual content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 46 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 27, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
IDP Distribution
GENRE
Dramas, Infidelity, Prostitutes/Whores, Authors
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Man from Elysian Fields Site
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 "Credibility sinks into a mire of sentiment."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "A sharp, smart and robustly engaging film about a man at the end of his rope and his struggle to avoid hanging himself with it."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"The film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances, but the result is disappointing."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Funny and, at times, poignant, the film from director George Hickenlooper all takes place in Pasadena, "a city where people still read.""
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Andy Garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and Mick Jagger gives his best movie performance since, well, Performance."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality, Jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"The Man From Elysian Fields is a cold, bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"Director George Hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries, but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad, and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place."
-- Jonathan F. Richards, IN THE DARK
"Best of all is Garcia, who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"The direction, by George Hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"When a movie asks you to feel sorry for Mick Jagger's sex life, it already has one strike against it."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"...a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance"
-- Philip Martin, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
"...would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges."
-- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL)
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"Half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations, while the remainder...would be more at home on a daytime television serial."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Best indie of the year, so far."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"A pointed, often tender, examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"If The Man from Elysian Fields is doomed by its smallness, it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you’re one of the lucky few who sought it out."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Both Garcia and Jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters, who are alternately touching and funny."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Despite its dry wit and compassion, the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work."
-- Eric Monder, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"It's Jagger's bone-dry, mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The story's so preposterous that I didn't believe it for a second, despite the best efforts of everyone involved."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"The film is hard to dismiss -- moody, thoughtful, and lit by flashes of mordant humor."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
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ROTTEN 43%
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10 |
"One of those nicely made, well-acted, entertaining pictures that would be sensational if only it didn't suffer from a failure of nerve."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Lasker's canny, meditative script distances sex and love, as Byron and Luther ... realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"Jagger the actor is someone you want to see again."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"An elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The actors are appealing, but Elysian Fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental."
-- Tom Sime, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"After an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly, sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be, you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Pompous and garbled."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Only the charm and attractiveness of the cast keeps this movie from the remainder bin."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The cast ... keeps this pretty watchable, and casting Mick Jagger as director of the escort service was inspired."
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
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"All of the elements are in place for a great film noir, but director George Hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat."
-- Ben Kenigsberg, EAST HAMPTON INDEPENDENT
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