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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Leaving Las Vegas
1995
***
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis

Nicolas Cage gives an uncharacteristically controlled performance as a man who has lost his family and decides to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death, only to find himself falling in love with a prostitute. This moody drama is seedy, uncompromising, unpleasant and thought-provoking in equal measures. Cage won an Oscar.