This is a very good drama. Stars Nicolas Cage as a alcoholic and Elisabeth Shue as a prostitute. By chance these two troubled souls end up meeting and connecting. I would consider this sort of a very dark love story. Excellent performances from Cage and Shue. A very character dri...( read more)
A moving love story that is really gruesome and sincere to watch.It provides a very shocking and revealing look at the lives of a hopeless drunkard and a lonely prostitute. It is intense but worth watching to understand the nature of different loves.
Leaving Las Vegas is quite a powerful and somewhat depressing romantic drama. Both the roles of anowed alchoholic played by Nicolas Cage and a troubled prostitute played by Elsabeth Sue are performed excellently creating perfect chemistry between the two characters throughout the...( read more)
Love this film. It?s a very moving story of two lost souls finding each other albeit, a little too late. Cage deserved his Oscar for his performance but Shue was overlooked I believe.
A very realistic movie on the life that takes the alcoholic one and a very good performance on behalf of nicolas cage I
This is an underappreciated gem of the cinema of the 1990's. Nicolas Cage gives his best performance of his career here, and rightfully won the Oscar for his work. Shue should have won, as she also gives an excellent performance, but sadly that didn't happen. The writing is excel...( read more)
Cage's most decent acting ever. A powerful and realistic film mainly about one of the worst and most destructive sicknesses in the world: alcoholism.
80/100
Freaking depressing dreary movie. Makes you feel like there's no point to life and everybody is sad and alcoholics and hookers are walking around all over the place. Great performances, but the first thing I said after I saw this movie was, "I gotta go take a shower." That pretty...( read more)
esta muy buena... es la historia de como tocar fondo y morir en el intento.
VERY VERY VERY DEPRESSING, Great movie to sit through once... not again, though.
A very tender film. Gritty and dark enough to blur the lines of a love story, but not funny enough to be a black comedy. A good movie is in all that somewhere, it'll just take the right eye to spot it.
very unusual romance,.dark and heartbreaking.cage and shue at their peak also boost the movie
Nothing like watching someone drink themselves to death for an hour and a half. Disgusting to romantize it.
Whether it be the alcoholic or neurotic type, it seems Nic Cage is at his best whenever he plays a writer of some kind. Because this, along with his performance in Adapation, marks the high points of his acting career thus far. On top of that it also it has a really intere...( read more)
This movie was just sad...I could relate to it because of a family member that went through this. Some people just can't be saved..."
Cage's most interesting and rewarding performance. Shue is also irresistible. HIghly recommended.
bueniiiiisima, la historia de amor, y el lento suicidio de nicolas cage
slow romance with top performances by Elisabeth Shue&Cage. An ending without a beginning. Different kinda romance. Fresh idea about unconditional love made too long.
Giving up the will to try and make something of oneself in this world has never been so disciplined or organised than this sad good bye tale. Nicholas Cage brings out the despondent loser in everyone with the pledge to drink every day till he dies. Don't try to stop him and in re...( read more)
sad story,but really great acting from nic cage.moody visuals and music too.
over-rated ultimately pointless film since the message has been done a hundred times since then, but Cage is good.
I have to admit, that in his drunken stage, Cage was pretty "cool", but other then this, what's the point?
Being a sorry as drunk will get you in bed with Elizabeth Shue? Raping a prostitute won't make you do time?
It's an ok movie, but nothing more, nothing special, nothing that...( read more)
Probably Nic Cage's best performance ever. He deserved an Oscar for this madness performance. Elisabeth Shue as a supporting role also brilliant as a hooker
Nothing spells tragic love story like a drunk and a hooker. Leaving Las Vegas is an excellent romantic movie. The characters are incredibly flawed, yet they don't bother trying to victimise them. Cage states "I can't remember if I started drinking when she left or she left when I...( read more)
Not Nic Cage's best film but definately his best performance.Period. A film you may not watch again but one to watch nonetheless.
Great story for its honesty of character. Tremendously believable performance by Nicholas Cage. (to be continued)
incredibly emotional & disturbing. like a train wreck that you can't look away from
"Is drinking a way of killing yourself?
- Or is killing myself a way of drinking?"
Ben Sanderson (Nic Cage), once a promising screenwriter, decides to drink himself to death after losing everything, including hope, in his life. In Las Vegas, he meets a beautiful prostitute c...( read more)
An outstanding movie.. There is no better example of the interaction of two proficient actors at the top of their game.
The depressing but intense relationship of two damaged people. Great performance by Nicolas Cage.
