Even though The Man from Elysian Fields runs just over an hour and a half, it feels a bit drawn out – although I can understand why director George Hickenlooper might be reluctant to cut the sequences featuring Mick Jagger alongside Anjelica Huston. These moments don’t advance anything and don't seem to go anywhere, but they do include Mick Jagger and Anjelica Huston. The issue is that Jagger’s character functions mostly as a storyteller, whose sole purpose seems to be introducing Andy García into the world of male escorting; what he gets up to outside of that, and with whom, doesn't impact the story at all, so it’s essentially pointless for viewers. Fortunately for Andy, though it’s pretty far-fetched, his career as a high-end escort involves just one client who happens to be wealthy, lonely, strikingly beautiful, about his age, and married to his idol, portrayed by James Coburn. And not only is Coburn okay with his wife using a sexual surrogate, but he's also willing to let García assist him in writing another book. Really. Putting aside the unlikely events, the dynamic between these three characters is the strongest aspect of the film (with Coburn effortlessly conveying a tough, Hemingway-like masculinity), and it offers opportunities for both drama and humor. This makes García’s earlier family life seem unimportant unless the script requires it to deliver a sentimental happy ending – and the fact that Hickenlooper was unwilling to cut Julianna Margulies also helps explain his desire to keep Jagger and Huston in the film. The time spent on either of these side stories would have been better used following García’s development as an author. His complicated experiences with Coburn and his wife would undoubtedly give him far more compelling material (and a valuable mentor) than his previous novel, which was styled after an Ira Levin thriller called Hitler's Child. However, the characters are authors only in name, and their literary partnership is limited to swapping one concept for another – migrant workers instead of Roman slaves.

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