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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
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One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1995, this wrenchingly sad but extraordinarily moving drama provides an authentic, superbly acted portrait of two people whose lives intersect just as they've reached their lowest depths of despair. Ben (Nicolas Cage, in an Oscar-winning performance) is a former movie executive who's lost his wife and family in a sea of alcoholic self-destruction. He's come to Las Vegas literally to drink himself to death, and that's when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute who falls in love with him--and he with her--despite their mutual dead-end existence. They accept each other as they are, with no...
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| Leaving Las Vegas Movie Review by Jesse (1/14/2007) |
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This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen with my two eyes. It's a beautiful movie even though it may sound like a sex fest. The sexual content in this film is not meant to be exploitative, but like a great piece of art.
The chemistry between the two main characters is fantastic. Mike Figgis' screenplay is...
(complete Leaving Las Vegas review by Jesse)
| Leaving Las Vegas Movie Review by Valerie (12/31/2006) |
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Depressing, dark, moody...these are all good qualities to describe Leaving Las Vegas. The film creates an atmosphere full of darkness and two great characters inhabit it.
Nicolas Cage stars as an alcoholic who has hit rock bottom and just wants to go to Las Vegas and drink to death, sounds simple, doesn't it?
He meets a...
(complete Leaving Las Vegas review by Valerie)
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