I love you... The way you are.
Ben 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.
- Addiction
- Bleak ending
- Suicide or self-harm
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Character
Earnest, grave, overwhelming and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
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“Is Leaving Las Vegas emotionally manipulative?”
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“Is Leaving Las Vegas harder work than it needs to be?”
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“Does the smallness hold it back?”
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Cast
- Nicolas CageBen Sanderson
- Elisabeth ShueSera
- Julian SandsYuri
- Richard LewisPeter
- Steven WeberMarc Nussbaum
- Kim AdamsSheila
- Emily ProcterDebbie
- Stuart RegenMan At Bar
- Valeria GolinoTerri
- Graham BeckelL.A. Bartender
Crew
- Mike FiggisDirector
- Mike FiggisScreenplay
- John O'BrienNovel
- Declan QuinnDirector of Photography
- Mike FiggisOriginal Music Composer
- John SmithEditor
- Lila CazèsProducer
- Annie StewartProducer
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