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Leaving Las Vegas
Directed by Mike Figgis
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. From TMDB
246 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 28, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 42 | 20 | 172 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 drama romance film, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue and Julian Sands.
- 232 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
- posts span Jun 13, 2021 to Oct 27, 2026
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60 of 246 · most liked firstYou gotta realize a solid 60% of people are gonna miss the point of the movie My guy Nick thought Leaving Las Vegas was about a guy who was really good at drinking
positive · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump: anyone who's seen a mob movie knows "86 him" means kill him. Google search on movies with "86 him" brings up 2: Leaving Las Vegas and The Tender Bar. In both "86 him" meant throw him out of the bar.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching THE feel good movie of the 1990s (Leaving Las Vegas)
negative · AI labelView post →Haven’t figured out how to fly in the Sky of Blue here. Actor from Pop culture Film&TV (Mommie Dearest,T2, Air Force One, Apollo 13,Gatacca,Shanghai Noon - 24, Nikita, The Walking Dead) to Indie Art Film (Sid & Nancy, SAFE, Leaving Las Vegas, Candyman, and a couple hundred others:).🤷🏻😅✌️LibDem 4 evr
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched LEAVING LAS VEGAS for the first time.
neutral · AI labelView post →The structure of the republic and the Constitution required political agents acting in good faith for the good of the citizens. That has absolutely collapsed. That is no longer functioning at all. Politically the US is in a state of actual warfare between its citizens v citizens spree shootings/school shootings/political assassinations/media assassinations and citizen v military being rolled out to multiple cities. The police are being transmogrified into ICE. Whatever version of the…
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of LEAVING LAS VEGAS boxd.it/fo9mnP Two lost souls find unlikely connection & unconditional love against backdrop of soulless Sin City. Succeeds with strong characterizations & mastery of conflicting tones: romantic, depressing, funny, horrific & even hopefully tragic. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas as an aspirational film for 2025
neutral · AI labelView post →New from Studio Canal, a 4K UHD restoration of Mike Figgis' Oscar-winner Leaving Las Vegas. In the book, Nicolas Cage's character doesn't turn up for 30 pages; this is actually the story of sex-worker Sera (Elizabeth Shue). Shue is amazing in this film; 4 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/05/22/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →When I worked for WEEU in Reading, PA, 1995, they gave me a press pass for the local multiplex. Saw Batman Forever, Apollo 13, Seven, Nixon, Casino, 12 Monkeys, The American President, Leaving Las Vegas, Murder in the First, Mr. Holland's Opus, Brady Bunch Movie -- all for free.
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD 10/27/95: Mike Figgis' searing portrait of alcoholism & codependency, LEAVING LAS VEGAS, opens in limited release. Nicolas Cage won Oscar as suicidal writer; Elisabeth Shue delivers career-best as prostitute & romantic partner. Author John O'Brien killed himself during production. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995). Director: Mike Figgis. Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue. Love, dysfunction, & alcohol...not quite the modern fairy tale. Cage won the Oscar, but Shue always blows me away as well (in her one nomination). Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Some movies are intentionally not fun, because their message isn't about fun things. *Leaving Las Vegas* isn't fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Studio Canal on Prime currently 99p a month on Prime - retro movie heaven - have watched Heart of Darkness doco, Angel Heart (can see why Christopher Nolan loves it) & Leaving Las Vegas. Class!
positive · AI labelView post →We're currently Leaving Las Vegas, which, incidentally, is another movie filmed here
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 9/10: Character DUI in a movie "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) youtu.be/49_GXAZgn4s?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky Day 16: A film that makes you cry. Leaving Las Vegas 😥
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird that FBI guy says the attempted shooting was more tragic than a movie when he himself is a walking version of Leaving Las Vegas
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Leaving Las Vegas’ at 30: Mike Figgis credits Elisabeth Shue with aiding Nicolas Cage’s Oscar win www.goldderby.com/film/2025/le...
neutral · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas - not a bad film but watching someone drink themselves to death wasn't a good date choice. I was also taken on a date to see Performance and fell asleep. The relationship did not go much further.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? Raising Arizona
neutral · AI labelView post →My life is a lot like the movie Leaving Las Vegas. But instead of alcohol, I'm slowly killing myself with salty snacks and sugary beverages
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's the thing: Nick Cage in Leaving Las Vegas gave a truly amazing acting performance, like one of the greatest performances of all time. But he was even better in Pig, a film virtually nobody saw because of its ridiculous- sounding premise. That film left me genuinely crying because of Cage.
positive · AI labelView post →Smash two movies together to make a new movie National Lampoon: Leaving Las Vegas Vacation
neutral · AI labelView post →"Leaving Las Vegas", with someone who turned out to be an alcoholic. First clue was that after the movie her first comment was "this movie was anti-alcohol!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?
neutral · AI labelView post →January 7, 1964 Nicolas Cage (Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas) is born in Long Beach, California. What's your favorite film from this actor?
neutral · AI labelView post →For some reason I watched Leaving Las Vegas last night for the first time in 20yrs, and I had no idea the author that wrote the novel shot himself weeks after he sold the rights to get the movie made. Put a whole new spin on that one. Elizabeth Shue is absolutely brilliant.
positive · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas. Not a bad movie but a terrible movie for a first date on Valentine’s Day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Leaving Las Vegas for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →I only remember it used on the film Leaving Las Vegas when the bartender tells nick cage " I can 86 you anytime I want" which meant shutting him off and telling to leave the place"
neutral · AI labelView post →30 years ago, I (& the Mrs) went out to see critically-acclaimed film 🎥 Leaving Las Vegas. Others at the cinema were there for the reviled exploitation-schlock Showgirls. Their reputations have shifted over time. Three decades later, were the critics right or wrong? Tonight, I find out!
neutral · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas/25th Hour-style movie where a guy goes on a bender at a series of all-you-can-eat buffets the night before he starts Ozempic.
neutral · AI labelView post →when i am sad i watch a Nicolas Cage movie and i am slightly less sad (except for Leaving Las Vegas)
negative · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas [82] is a Metacritic Must-See ($4 VOD) www.metacritic.com/movie/leavin... #11pmspecial #thewholeyearinn "A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Leaving Las Vegas for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallrnge #FilmSky 🎥 A movie about someone who loves to drink. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Nicholas Cage as Ben Sanderson
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky #moviesky #filmchallenge #septembermoviechallenge 9/10 - Somebody driving drunk in a movie - "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) - Nicholas Cage's character Ben Sanderson is drinking and driving
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? On this day, and all days: Moonstruck (1987).
neutral · AI labelView post →Drunk Pete wants a part in the new Hangover movie…too bad he couldn’t star in the new Leaving Las Vegas sequel…
neutral · AI labelView post →@juicysteak117.gay In the dozens, perhaps hundreds of messages you received defending Nicolas Cage tonight, did anyone mention Leaving Las Vegas? I thought it was funny that I didn't see a single person mentioning the movie he got an oscar for. (don't watch it though you won't like it)
negative · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes to a movie" Leaving Las Vegas for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →The only time I've ever seen "86" used in a movie was in Leaving Las Vegas, where it clearly meant a bartender kicking an unwanted customer out of a bar.
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't see a single person name Leaving Las Vegas... I get it, super fucked up movie, even more so when you add the writer's death, but Cage was phenomenal and Elizabeth Shue was amazing as well.
positive · AI labelView post →Leaving Las Vegas. …just kidding. That movie was depressing as fuck. Raising Arizona was his best movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? Moonstruck
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?
neutral · AI labelView post →15 movies to get to know me Crash (Cronenberg) Alien Leaving Las Vegas Annette sex, lies, and videotape The Killing of a Sacred Deer Jurassic Park The Thing Amadeus Constantine The Man Who Fell to Earth Donnie Darko Iron Man Strange Circus In the Realm of the Senses
neutral · AI labelView post →OMG! To continue: - Hackers - Empire Records - Mallrats - Batman Forever - Tales From The Hood - Waterworld - Die Hard With a Vengeance - Leaving Las Vegas - The American President - Desperado - Species - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →This would be a great double feature with Leaving Las Vegas, that one really depressing mid-90s movie about Nic Cage trying desperately to drink himself to death in the Nevada desert. . #FrightClub #Bug
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge (October) #MovieSky #Filmsky #nightflight 🎥🍿🎬 Day 6 Movie or TV character played by Elisabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Elisabeth Shue, Sera, "Leaving Las Vegas" (directed by Mike Figgis). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #elisabethshue #leavinglasvegas #mikefiggis
positive · AI labelView post →"If there are two unplayable roles in the stock repertory, they are the drunk & the whore with a heart of gold. Cage & Shue make these cliches into unforgettable people.” Roger Ebert A new restoration of LEAVING LAS VEGAS plays 11/10 at NW Film Forum. grandillusioncinema.org/film/leaving...
neutral · AI labelView post →'Leaving Las Vegas" is his only film. The rest are flicks.
positive · AI labelView post →"Red Rock West"! Great film noir. First film Dwight Yoakam appeared in!!! He was amazing in "Leaving Las Vegas", as well!
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? The Sorcerer's Apprentice. He savored every single bite of that scenery.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? #CageAPalooza
neutral · AI labelView post →heads up Leaving Las Vegas is on Tubi, a movie that wrecks me every time but i'm not watching that, i'm watching the Tom Petty Runnin Down a Dream documentary
neutral · AI labelView post →Cage without a doubt has certainly the most interesting film career with a ton classics (The Rock, Wild at Heart, Moonstruck, Con Air, Adaptation, Gone in 60 Seconds, 8mm, Bringing Out the Dead, Face/Off, and Leaving Las Vegas for which he won a deserved Oscar (and sold it)). 116 casted roles. #hatm
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