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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 27 October, 1995 DVD Release : 01 January, 2000 |
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Leaving Las Vegas description One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1995, this wrenchingly sad but extraordinarily moving drama provides an authentic, superbly acted portrait of two people whose lives intersect just as they've reached their lowest depths of despair. Ben (Nicolas Cage, in an Oscar-winning performance) is a former movie executive who's lost his wife and family in a sea of alcoholic self-destruction. He's come to Las Vegas literally to drink himself to death, and that's when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute who falls in love with him--and he with her--despite their mutual dead-end existence. They accept each other as they are, with no attempts by one to change the other, and this unconditional love turns Leaving Las Vegas into a somber yet quietly beautiful love story. Earning Oscar nominations for Best Director (Mike Figgis), Best Adapted Screenplay (Figgis, from John O'Brien's novel) and Best Actress (Shue), the film may strike some as relentlessly bleak and glacially paced, but attentive viewers will readily discover the richness of these tragic characters and the exceptional performances that bring them to life. (In a sad echo of his own fiction, novelist John O'Brien committed suicide while this film was in production.) The DVD features uncut, unrated footage that was not included in the film's theatrical release. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Listen hip film auteur. This is why the film industry is dying. They take some decent actors and make them live out a miserable life for your entertainment. Did I say entertainment? Oh! Roger Ebert thought it was the best film of 1995. Well, it was the Clinton years, those merry days when Hollywood perverts could indulge their fantasy without interference from pesky terrorists. Out of sight, out of mind.
Drama is not comedy after all. Some of the best works of art are all about suffering. King Lear ain't no comedy, but we care about the foolish old coot who denies his most virtuous daughter leading to the collapse of his kingdom. Nick Cage isn't Lear. No, there's no nobility, just a drunk with occasional hysteria and his Las Vegas working girl. She's not exactly Ophelia either. Together they have love in a barren desert. Monica Lewinski, where are you? Are you kidding? This must be that Hollywood producer love. Personally, if I wanted to see nudity and adult activities, then there's the work of Tracy Lords, so why would I pay to see a silly whiskey on-the-chest scene. Oh, I got so turned on. There are great dramas in the 1950's about alcoholics. The audiences were entertained and possibly illuminated. Usually they were written by Tennessee Williams and played with finesse by Paul Newman. We saw their struggle and pitied their battle with booze. Sometimes they recovered. In Days of Wine and Roses, Jack Lemmon does and his screen wife, Lee Remick doesn't. Heartbreaking, but LLV is hollow Hollywood existentialism with no soul and that's why we don't care. |
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