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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 27, 1998
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage & Elisabeth Shue | |
Performer: | Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, David Brisbin, Valeria Golino & Steven Weber | |
Directed by | Mike Figgis | |
Edited by | John Smith | |
Screenplay by | Mike Figgis | |
Composition by | Mike Figgis | |
Director of Photography: | Declan Quinn |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1995 -
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) is a remarkably potent romantic drama that permanently altered the careers of many of the people involved in its creation.
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ColeSmithey.com
...LEAVING LAS VEGAS is one of the best films of the year....That such a film gets made is a miracle....It is a pure, grand gesture...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
What works, first and foremost, are the two lead performances.
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...Haunting....[Shue and Cage] are excellent... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
...A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best...
Rolling Stone
A love story like no other, Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas is a bleak, mesmerizing rhapsody of self-destruction, defiantly uninterested in peddling Hollywood-style uplift.
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Newsweek
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.
Variety
Product Description:
With LEAVING LAS VEGAS, director Mike Figgis spun critical gold out of what would appear to be a maudlin and hackneyed premise--a down-and-out drunk meets a hooker with a heart of gold. The reason for the film's success lies partly in its refusal to moralize, but mostly it is the strong performances of Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue that make the story believable and poignant. Ben Sanderson (Cage) is a Hollywood screenwriter who has become an alcoholic. After being fired, he takes his severance pay to Las Vegas, where he plans to drink himself to death. There he meets Sera (Shue), a streetwise prostitute who responds both to Ben's wild antics and to his absolute gentleness. What Sera needs most is to be needed, and Ben needs her a lot. Figgis uses his whole bag of tricks--Sera talks to the camera, the exteriors are shot in grainy 16mm--but finally it is the perfectly-conceived relationship between these two wounded people that drew the rave reviews. The film was based on a novel by John O'Brien.
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