Leaving Las Vegas
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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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- 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.
MarcissusOct 23, 2012This 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…
DirkHJan 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"
Harry Ridgway - Dec 30, 2016
I'm not sure whether I relate more to the depressed lonely person or the depressed suicidal person here.
Sigfred StorstrandJan 25, 2021It’s never occurred to me that Leaving Las Vegas is a film that revolves around depression, alcoholism or prostitution; you’ll have to include scenes where the hardships of coming from those backgrounds are the matter but the film struck me for a couple of reasons that are…
Rocky IbarraMay 16, 2020Whenever 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…
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…
lairdFeb 8, 2019miserable, and not in a profound way. I’ve never experienced a film less aware of what it is.
jourdain searlesApr 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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- Jikitiz dislikedLeaving Las Vegas
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Stutter with the Fedora lovedLeaving Las VegasA 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.
Morgan lovedLeaving Las Vegasbro 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
- Antonio Montana dislikedLeaving Las Vegas
Worse than dog water
Isaac Fung likedLeaving Las VegasA somber, quite emotional movie. Two characters that really was portrayed well by two fine actors. A similar movie is Lost in Translation (2003)
11811 likedLeaving Las VegasBeautiful cinematography to complement the whirlwind of alcoholism, and the joys in finding (albeit last minute) the value of human connection.
- Ben Rolfe likedLeaving 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
Superbad likedLeaving Las VegasGreat soundtrack, definitely not a light hearted movie and I could see some people feeling unpleasant with some of the scenes
Ciaran Fourrier lovedLeaving Las VegasNick Cage is amazing here. Great soundtrack by Sting. Also, the cinematography is great
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Metacritic
Nicolas Cage gives one of the best performances of his strange, courageous career.
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Examiner
Deliberately downbeat, it's best as a two-person character study, stumbling a bit whenever it extends its parameters.
Mike Clark
USA Today
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Leaving Las Vegas (1995) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as R, meaning that Under 17 requires an adult accompaniment.
How long is Leaving Las Vegas (1995)?
The movie is 1hr 51min long.
What's Leaving Las Vegas (1995) about?
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.
Who's the cast of Leaving Las Vegas (1995)?
- Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson
- Elisabeth Shue as Sera
- Julian Sands as Yuri
- Richard Lewis as Peter
- Steven Weber as Marc Nussbaum
- Kim Adams as Sheila
- Emily Procter as Debbie
- Stuart Regen as Man at Bar
- Valeria Golino as Terri
- Graham Beckel as L.A. Bartender
Who's the director behind Leaving Las Vegas (1995)?
Mike Figgis directed Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
Who produced Leaving Las Vegas (1995)?
Lila Cazès and Annie Stewart produced Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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