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Leaving Las Vegas
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The movie follows alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson as he drinks himself into oblivion in Las Vegas. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
The movie follows alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson as he drinks himself into oblivion in Las Vegas. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Actors:
Vincent Ward,
Ed Lauter,
Lucinda Jenney,
Susan Barnes,
Bill Thompson,
Thomas Kopache,
Gordon Michaels
Vincent Ward
16 February 1956, Greytown, New Zealand
Ed Lauter
30 October 1938, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
Lucinda Jenney
23 April 1954, Long Island City, New York, USA
Susan Barnes
Bill Thompson
Thomas Kopache
17 October 1945, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Gordon Michaels
Country:
United States
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February 11, 2008
It's a relief when so dark a film refuses to preach, trusting the viewer to draw his own conclusions about the roots of America's self-destructive funk.
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[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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The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.
September 24, 2007
Figgis presents disintegration as a state of grace.
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The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.
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The artistic direction of Figgis keeps it honest and unsentimental.
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Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.
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Figgis puts a desperate drunk front and center and demands we deal with him and the Jungian shadow he casts. [Blu-ray]
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It certainly has the courage of its convictions.
September 19, 2008
Figgis' film, one of the few to show the sleazy flip-side of the glossy city of Las Vega, offers an unblinking portrayal of alcoholism.
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We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies.
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Small, searing film.