Leaving Las Vegas (Blu-ray, Unrated)
I Love You... The Way You Are.
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Blu-ray Details
- 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)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage & Elisabeth Shue | |
Performer: | Julian Sands, Richard Lewis & David Brisbin | |
Directed by | Mike Figgis | |
Composition by | Mike Figgis | |
Director of Photography: | Declan Quinn |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1995 -
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Reel Talk Online
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
Rating: B+ --
The artistic direction of Figgis keeps it honest and unsentimental.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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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TIME Magazine
The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.
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Chicago Reader
It certainly has the courage of its convictions.
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Time Out
...A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best...
Rolling Stone
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.