Sunday, December 30, 2012

Leaving Las Vegas - 1995 *


This is described as a romantic drama on Wikipedia. It certainly isn't romantic and it's more a mental disaster movie than a drama. Nicolas Cage gives a painful performance as a drunken waste of space who decides to go to Las Vegas to drink himself to death after he loses his wife and his job. Elisabeth Shue is the prostitute he meets and falls in love with who has her own problems too. Semi - autobiographical apparently. Bit disturbing and very depressing and bleak.

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