Leaving Las Vegas

Name: Leaving Las Vegas
Duration: 1 h 51 min

1hr 51m

1hr 51m
3.7/5 (21.3K)
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Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and… More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Mike Figgis

Producer:

Lila Cazès, Annie Stewart

Writer:

John O'Brien

Release Date:

Oct 27, 1995

Runtime:

1hr 51m

Synopsis

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Cast

Nicolas Cage
Elisabeth Shue
Julian Sands
Richard Lewis
Steven Weber
Kim Adams
Emily Procter
Stuart Regen
Valeria Golino
Graham Beckel

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3.7

Feb 7, 2013

>Nicolas Cage researched his character by binge drinking, and would film himself drunk to study his speech patterns. One of the great pains in my life is that I will never see this footage.

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Marcissus

Oct 23, 2012

This film kicks my teeth in in the most beautiful way every time I watch it. Whenever an artist manages to combine and contrast beauty and reality I'm always sucked in without reservation, often leaving me wrecked but smiling. Figgis, Cage and Shue made promises here…

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DirkH

Jan 1, 2014

"Hey man, you want a drink?" "Nah, I just watched Leaving Las Vegas" "Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I'll see you around" "Maybe"

819 Likes

Harry Ridgway
Dec 30, 2016

I'm not sure whether I relate more to the depressed lonely person or the depressed suicidal person here.

462 Likes

Sigfred Storstrand

May 16, 2020

Whenever Cage talks about acting in interviews, he talks about his desire to move away from naturalism, or to find a way to combine naturalism with the "expressionism" of silent-film acting. I get excited hearing him talk about these ideas, and then wonder if he uses his…

300 Likes

Will Sloan

Jan 5, 2014

With sincere apologies to Kent "The Beast of Brier" Beeson whose Beasts of the Southern Wild review this apes: Hey girl, sorry your physically abusive Latvian pimp was murdered by gangsters, your job entails demeaning yourself in public, you got kicked out of your…

296 Likes

laird
Feb 8, 2019

miserable, and not in a profound way. I’ve never experienced a film less aware of what it is.

289 Likes

jourdain searles

Feb 24, 2024

[Mike Figgis chainsmoking in the edit room]: … put the Sting song in here too

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Chris Feil

Apr 30, 2022

"You can never, ever, ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?" —————— "I do. I really do." This line and moment ring more true than any line or moment in any film about alcohol abuse in the history of cinema. This is the most depressing movie and it isn’t. The…

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Stutter with the Fedora loved

Leaving Las Vegas

A powerful character piece that involves a alcoholic drinking himself to death and a prostitute searching for love and accepting each other’s life’s and never asking them to change. Cage and Shue were outstanding and never been better and the direction and the score intimate.

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Morgan loved

Leaving Las Vegas

bro i can’t do this, i can’t handle tragic romance it makes me bawl my eyes out and i for real couldn’t stop crying, but i needed a good cry, the performances were so good :( you could feel the sadness/desperation in every little expression and dialogue delivery, i’m broken now

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Antonio Montana disliked

Leaving Las Vegas

Worse than dog water

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Mark Bateman loved

Leaving Las Vegas

9/10 A tragic romance, two strangers find solitude and peace in each another arms, while embracing each other loneliness/sadness. Great story, well written and casted (believable). Recommend.

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Isaac Fung liked

Leaving Las Vegas

A somber, quite emotional movie. Two characters that really was portrayed well by two fine actors. A similar movie is Lost in Translation (2003)

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11811 liked

Leaving Las Vegas

Beautiful cinematography to complement the whirlwind of alcoholism, and the joys in finding (albeit last minute) the value of human connection.

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Ben Rolfe liked

Leaving Las Vegas

Worth the watch, not quite what I expected and thing there’s a little more hype behind it then there should be but I did enjoy the story

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Superbad liked

Leaving Las Vegas

Great soundtrack, definitely not a light hearted movie and I could see some people feeling unpleasant with some of the scenes

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