The Man from Elysian Fields
- IMDb link: 0265307
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (4,742 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Director: Andy Garcia, George Hickenlooper
- Cast: Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, Mick Jagger and others
- Release date: 28 Nov 2002
- Release year: 2001
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: unfaithfulness, three in a bed, seduction, open marriage, extramarital affair, financial problem, adultery, advertising agency, opera, third person omniscient narration
Plot:
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.