Leaving Las Vegas

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$49.8M

Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Sanderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.

🏆 Won 1 Oscar. 32 wins & 30 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Romance

Director

Mike Figgis

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands

Released

9 February 1996

Runtime

1h 51m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.5 / 10

Votes

142,636

Metascore

82

Rotten Tomatoes

91%

Box office

$32,029,928

Budget

$3,600,000

Edition

Base