Leaving Las Vegas
United States 1995
Directed by
Cast
United States 1995
Directed by
Cast
Richard Lewis
Emily Procter
Ed Lauter
David Kriegel
Paul Quinn
Gordon Michaels
| Year: | 1995 | ||
| Running time: | 112 minutes 1
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| Country: | United States | ||
| Language: | English | ||
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Hollywood screenwriter and dedicated drunk Ben heads for Las Vegas where the bars are open twenty-four hours a day to drink himself to death. He meets prostitute Sera and she moves in with him. The relation is doomed, Ben doesn't want to stop drinking and Sera doesn't want to quit her job. They split up, but Ben calls her and they have finally make love to each other. The next morning Ben dies while holding Sera.
Books with substantial mentioning of Leaving Las Vegas
|  | Jürgen Müller Filme der 90er Köln-London-Madrid-New York-Paris-Tokyo, 2001 |
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| | Beth A. Fhaner and Christopher P. Scanlon (eds.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1996, 15th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1995 Detroit; New York; Toronto; London, 1996 |
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Articles on Leaving Las Vegas
| Libby Gelman-Waxner, Animals Behaving Badly, in: Premiere (UK), nr. 40 (May), 1996 pp. 104-105 |
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| Mike Figgis, Things are moving very quickly, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 1996 pp. 16-19 |
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Reviews
| Philip Kemp, Leaving Las Vegas, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 1996 pp. 44-45 |
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