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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality and language, violence and pervasive alcohol abuse
Starring Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, and Steven Weber
After being fired, an alcoholic screenwriter (Cage) takes his final paycheck to Las Vegas where he plans to drink himself to death. He comes in contact with a prostitute (Shue) who needs to be needed.
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
John O'Brien (novel)
Mike Figgis |
| DIRECTED BY: | Mike Figgis |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 24, 1998 Video: February 24, 1998 Theatrical: October 27, 1995 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 111 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Harold P. gave it a10:
Won't say it's the finest movie ever made, but it's my favorite ever. This film haunts me days after I watch it. Elisabeth Shue's tragic beauty is almost too much to bear. If you've ever loved and lost you understand what I mean.... This is Nicolas Cage's best performance, it's clear he knows his way around the bottle. Depressing, yes, ultimately uplifting...no. Just a small window into the lives of two hurt souls who finally find a lover and friend, even if they both know it's much too late...awesome.
Ted K. gave it an8:
Cage's performance is mesmerizing. This movie will resonate with anyone who has struggled with alcoholism. It can be a downer but the film--and Cage in particular--is so memorable that it's worth watching.
Job A. gave it a10:
I've seen this movie probably 30 times.The acting by cage is really unbelievable.Who ever doesn't like this movie never really paid attention to the amazing story and acting.A work of art.
Tracy R gave it a10:
An uncompromising, unsentimental poem. Perfectly done for what it is.
Captain Craig gave it a0:
Depressing, miserable production about two people to enable their adictions. No redeaming value whatsoever. Im boycotting Nick Nolte films in revenge for making me suffer thru this.
Trent m. gave it a 10:
Awesome!!!
Andrew M. gave it a 5:
This film is both good and bad. It wants to show how a man can descend into the purgatory existence of alcoholism. How relationships are strained, tortured and destroyed by such an existence. How realism becomes shadowed and warped by this lifestyle. And how the world itself reacts to such a degraded life. In these veins, the movie is good and it succeeds. The question is: moralising aside, who wants to watch this?...who wants to be willingly dragged down into this hell?...I didn't, but I was. The film didn't make me care; it was too ugly, too dark, too cold. In this way, it was bad. Some will say, so, that is how it is, that is reality! Well, I think you can paint reality in several different ways, all to get the same points across each time. I took several things out of this film...beneficial, enlightening things!...but I believe if the film had been made better, brighter, it might have made me actually care about these things.
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