Leaving Las Vegas (Blu-ray, Unrated)

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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 10, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1995
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1995 - Best Actor: Nicolas Cage

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh90%

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Total Count: 52

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 56,466
Rating: B+ -- This movie was like watching a car crash in slow motion. You knew there was going to be a crash, but I just wished it would just happen already, and not have spent two hours getting to the impact. Full Review
Reel Talk Online
Sep 12, 2017
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. Full Review
Newsweek
Feb 22, 2018
Rating: B+ -- The artistic direction of Figgis keeps it honest and unsentimental. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 13, 2015
We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Sep 19, 2008
The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Feb 11, 2008
It certainly has the courage of its convictions. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
...A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best...
Rolling Stone
Nov 2, 1995

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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