The Man from Elysian Fields

Nov 28 2002 R 1h 46m
Drama, Romance

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

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.

Written by

Phillip Jayson Lasker

Directed by

George Hickenlooper

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

TVA International, CineSon Entertainment, Fireworks Pictures, Pfilmco, Shoreline Entertainment, Gold Circle Films

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
4,622
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
57
Popularity
NA