Leaving Las Vegas
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Leaving Las Vegas the excellent 1995 film about a man deliberately drinking himself to death, is yet another film based on an autobiographical novel. In 1991 John O=Brien, the author of the novel upon which the screenplay is based, committed suicide two weeks after selling the rights to his book. The movie, which was written and directed by Mike Figgis, does not romanticize the story of the alcoholic Ben (Nicholas Cage) but it does stress the relationship he develops with the prostitute Sera (Elizabeth Shue) as the core of the film.Ben is an alcoholic screen writer who decides to drive to Las Vegas and drink himself to death after losing his wife, family and job; his severance pay makes his decision possible. The details of his alcoholism are not made clear and as Ben put
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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