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Leaving Las Vegas
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Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 French and American drama, romance, and erotic film directed by Mike Figgis. The screenplay was written by Figgis and John O'Brien, based on a work by O'Brien. The cast includes Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Valeria Golino, and Julian Sands. Anthony Marinelli and Mike Figgis composed the music, while Declan Quinn served as director of photography. The film was shot on 16 mm film in Santa Monica, with Los Angeles serving as the narrative location.
Produced by Initial Productions and Lumière Pictures, the film has a runtime of 107 or 111 minutes and was distributed by United Artists and Netflix. It received an R rating. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the National Board of Review Top Ten Films, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
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Film · TMDB
7.3Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson
- Elisabeth Shue as Sera
- Julian Sands as Yuri
- Richard Lewis as Peter
- Steven Weber as Marc Nussbaum
- Kim Adams as Sheila
Themes
- hotel room
- dying and death
- individual
- prostitute
- lovesickness
- rage and hate
- casino
- unsociability
- alcohol
- love at first sight
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
142,636 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
82/100
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 32 wins & 30 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mike Figgis
- Screenplay by
- Mike Figgis
- Based on
- Leaving Las Vegas , by John O'Brien
- Produced by
- Lila Cazès Annie Stewart
- Starring
- Nicolas Cage Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands
- Cinematography
- Declan Quinn
- Edited by
- John Smith
- Music by
- Anthony Marinelli Mike Figgis
- Production companies
- United Artists Lumiére Pictures
- Distributed by
- MGM/UA Distribution Co. (United States) AFMD (France) Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom and Ireland) Lumiére Pictures (Overseas)
- Release dates
- September 15, 1995 ( 1995-09-15 ) ( TIFF ) October 27, 1995 ( 1995-10-27 ) (United States) January 19, 1996 ( 1996-01-19 ) (United Kingdom) February 9, 1996 ( 1996-02-09 ) (United States) March 20, 1996 ( 1996-03-20 ) (France)
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Countries
- United States France United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3.5–4 million
- Box office
- $49.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- erotic film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- alcoholism
- Director
- Mike Figgis
- Screenwriter
- John O'Brien
- Cast member
- Albert Henderson
- Composer
- Mike Figgis
- Cinematographer
- Declan Quinn
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 107
- FilmAffinity ID
- 200074
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.mgm.com/view/Movie/1098/Leaving-Las-Vegas
- Image
- Las Vegas, Circus Circus, 2018.11.22 (08).jpg
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- publication date
- 1996-05-09
- title
- Leaving Las Vegas
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- after a work by
- John O'Brien
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film format
- 16 mm film
- review score
- 82/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. Once there, he develops a romantic relationship with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue).
Leaving Las Vegas was filmed in super 16 mm instead of 35 mm film; while 16 mm was common for art house films at the time, 35 mm is most commonly used for mainstream film. After limited release in the United States on October 27, 1995, Leaving Las Vegas was released nationwide on February 9, 1996, receiving strong praise from critics and audiences with many lauding the performances from Cage and Shue, the tone, the themes and Figgis's direction and screenplay. Cage received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actor, while Shue was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also received nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.
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