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Leaving Las Vegas

7.2/10

Rating

111 min

Runtime

1995

Release Year

Mike Figgis

Director

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber

Quick Synopsis

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who has lost his career and personal life due to alcoholism, moves to Las Vegas with the intention of drinking himself to death. While there, he meets Sera, a prostitute, and they develop a complicated friendship based on mutual understanding and an agreement not to interfere with each other's lives.

Detailed Synopsis of Leaving Las Vegas

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.

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