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. There, he m
but arguably his biggest and most intense performance is the one he won an Academy Award for -- that of alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson in "Leaving Las Vegas." The movie follows Sanderson as he tries to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, Nevada, a task that doesn't seem too diffi...
By Mary Ann Jimenez Arts and Media Editor Ben Sanderson, who is an alcoholic, is the hero of the movie "Leaving Las Vegas." His heroism is accomplished without romanticism and in the face of the full physicality of end stage alcoholism. This extraordinary feat is accomplished by the terrific...
The best scenes of the movie are when Cage's character fires quips and witticisms in the midst of his drunkenness. But it's not very depressing, because we just aren't given enough information about the characters to care; Cage is drunk from the start, and never really stops, so it's...
But the movie is worth watching for the actors. Shue makes a definitive break from her nice-girl image, bringing a luminosity and poignancy to an ill-defined character. Cage’s performance is startlingly seamless, genuinely charming one minute and mortifying the next. IfLeaving Las Vegaspays...
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