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Feb 9, 1996 · Leaving Las Vegas: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis. Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
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- Drama, Romance
- Mike Figgis
- 1996-02-09
Box office. $49.8 million [ 3] Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical 1990 novel of the same name 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 ...
Extended Video with Filming Locations of the movie "Leaving Las Vegas" with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue as main actors.The scenes were filmed in and and ...
- 10 min
- 55K
- The Filming Locations
- JOHN O’BRIEN KILLED HIMSELF BEFORE THE FILM BEGAN PRODUCTION. John O’Brien’s father described his son’s 1990 novel as his suicide note. Nicolas Cage said it was “bittersweet” that the author, who was 33 years old when he died, never got to see the film based on his novel—and life.
- NICOLAS CAGE HONORED O’BRIEN IN HIS OWN WAY. Cage told Roger Ebert he found it “creepy” that while he played Ben Sanderson, he unknowingly ended up wearing the same watch and driving the same model BMW as O’Brien.
- IT WAS SHOT ON 16MM INSTEAD OF 35MM FILM. Though 35 millimeter film was the norm for mainstream movies, 16 millimeter was a cheaper option, which was necessary because of Leaving Las Vegas's tiny $3.5 million budget.
- PEOPLE WERE SKEPTICAL OF THE CASTING OF ELISABETH SHUE. Shue was known for her work on more lightweight films like The Karate Kid (1984) and Adventures in Babysitting (1987).
Feb 13, 2009 · Drama, Romance. R. 1h 51m. By Janet Maslin. Feb. 13, 2009. Ben Sanderson, played devastatingly by Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas," is something other than the usual movie drunk. Nothing about ...
- Mike Figgis
Nov 10, 1995 · Leaving Las Vegas. Elisabeth Shue and Nicolas Cage. Oh, this movie is so sad! It is sad not because of the tragic lives of its characters, but because of their goodness and their charity. What moves me the most in movies is not when something bad happens, but when characters act unselfishly. In "Leaving Las Vegas," a man loses his family and ...
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Apr 25, 2004 · The movie tells the story of Ben and Sera, played by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. He is a Hollywood agent, she is a prostitute. He is a Hollywood agent, she is a prostitute. Although prostitutes can be a cliché in the movies, and those with a good heart even more so, the details of their relationship leave clichés far behind, and the movie becomes the story of these specific characters ...
