Fresh
Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Leaving Las Vegas
I love you... The way you are.
1995 · 1h 51m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mike Figgis
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.
Leonard Klady, Variety
Fresh
The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
It certainly has the courage of its convictions.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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