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Leaving Las Vegas

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis View All


Crew

Mike Figgis (Screenplay), Mike Figgis (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 27th, 1995
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
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weeman
It's also completely harrowing then watching the film itself, knowing that Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) likely succumbed to the booze much quicker as a result of advertisements not dissimilar to those featuring the man in the red beach shorts.
seanc
I think the line in the film that is supposed to grab us, to make us understand what love is all about is when Serah tells Ben "I love you the way you are".
Gideon58
Figgis mounts this drama with an unapologetic eye, beginning the story with some really outrageous behavior on Ben's part...a moment where Ben is observed driving down a busy Hollywood street downing a bottle of vodka with the law behind him is almost laughable, but the story settles into a more rea....


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