Leaving Las Vegas
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.
23 January 1964, Santa Monica, California, USA
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July 19, 2011
Figgis puts a desperate drunk front and center and demands we deal with him and the Jungian shadow he casts. [Blu-ray]
September 19, 2008
We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies.
May 20, 2003
Small, searing film.
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.
October 13, 2015
The artistic direction of Figgis keeps it honest and unsentimental.
September 07, 2011
Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.
February 11, 2008
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.
September 07, 2013
[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.
September 24, 2007
Figgis presents disintegration as a state of grace.
June 24, 2006
It certainly has the courage of its convictions.
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.
February 11, 2008
The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.
