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A 1995 drama film starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue as a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute in Las Vegas. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, who died by suicide after selling the film rights.
Leaving Las Vegas: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis. Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
- (136K)
- Drama, Romance
- Mike Figgis
- 1996-02-09
Adapted from the novel by John O'Brien, this acclaimed drama follows alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) as he drinks himself into oblivion in Las...
- (53)
- Mike Figgis
- R
- Nicolas Cage
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 fo...
- 3 min
- 352.4K
- Amazon MGM Studios
A Hollywood screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and befriends a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue). Their relationship is based on mutual trust and non-interference, but faces challenges from his alcoholism and her pimp.
Nov 10, 1995 · In “Leaving Las Vegas,” a man loses his family and begins to drink himself to death. He goes to Vegas, and there on the street he meets a prostitute, who takes him in and cares for him, and he calls her his angel.
Apr 25, 2004 · Mike Figgis ‘ “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995) is not a love story, although it feels like one, but a story about two desperate people using love as a form of prayer and a last resort against their pain. It is also a sad, trembling portrait of the final stages of alcoholism.
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