FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Leaving Las Vegas
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2024-10-10
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.6/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic82/100as of 2025-08-30
What it is
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. Once there, he develops a romantic relationship with a prostitute.
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Drama
- Original language
- English
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