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Leaving Las Vegas

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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

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  • BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    You 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

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  • Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?

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  • Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    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.

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  • Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    Watching THE feel good movie of the 1990s (Leaving Las Vegas)

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  • Xander Berkeley @xanderberkeley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    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

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  • David Chen @davechen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    Watched LEAVING LAS VEGAS for the first time.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 27, 2025

    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…

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    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 📽

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  • Betsy Wetsy @betsyross.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    Leaving Las Vegas as an aspirational film for 2025

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    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...

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  • Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    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.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2025

    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 📽

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    #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 📽

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  • [deleted] @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 25, 2025

    Some movies are intentionally not fun, because their message isn't about fun things. *Leaving Las Vegas* isn't fun.

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  • Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    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!

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  • Flesh and Bad @fleshandbad.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    We're currently Leaving Las Vegas, which, incidentally, is another movie filmed here

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  • Charlotte Sometimes 🇨🇦 @charlysometimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2025

    #SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 9/10: Character DUI in a movie "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) youtu.be/49_GXAZgn4s?...

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  • Erin @erinclyde.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    #AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky Day 16: A film that makes you cry. Leaving Las Vegas 😥

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  • [Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    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

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  • Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.orgBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ at 30: Mike Figgis credits Elisabeth Shue with aiding Nicolas Cage’s Oscar win www.goldderby.com/film/2025/le...

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  • Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    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.

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  • ☀️🏖️ Summer Wolf ⛈️🍺... Matt Shafer @mbswolf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? Raising Arizona

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  • J_Curtis 🇨🇦 @j-curtis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    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

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  • Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2024

    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.

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  • Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.comBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Smash two movies together to make a new movie National Lampoon: Leaving Las Vegas Vacation

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  • Sean Hoyer @seanhoyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    "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!"

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  • DesTROY McClure 🧟‍♂️ @trozen.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    January 7, 1964 Nicolas Cage (Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas) is born in Long Beach, California. What's your favorite film from this actor?

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  • 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖎𝖓 @skoisirius.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    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.

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  • sirshannon @sirshannon.comBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Leaving Las Vegas. Not a bad movie but a terrible movie for a first date on Valentine’s Day.

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  • Nick Name @nickname76.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    #BlueZicos #MusicChallenge Mardi : un film avec un fort scénario Leaving Las Vegas www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1M...

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  • Quinn @emq56.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    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"

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  • Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2025

    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!

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  • Eize Basa @eizebasa.babyBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    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.

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  • vampire girlfriend 💀🎃 @mourningdoves.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    when i am sad i watch a Nicolas Cage movie and i am slightly less sad (except for Leaving Las Vegas)

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Apr 28, 2025

    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

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  • 𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 ♬ @ecksteinish.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    #JuneMovieChallrnge #FilmSky 🎥 A movie about someone who loves to drink. Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Nicholas Cage as Ben Sanderson

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  • Pauly82 @pauly1982.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    #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

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  • Ine Harsten 📎 @iharsten.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? On this day, and all days: Moonstruck (1987).

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  • boatsfra.bsky.social @boatsfra.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    Drunk Pete wants a part in the new Hangover movie…too bad he couldn’t star in the new Leaving Las Vegas sequel…

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  • pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2023

    @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)

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  • R. S. Martin @rsmwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    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.

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  • LuisLikesToPhish @luislikestophish.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    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.

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 14, 2025

    Leaving Las Vegas. …just kidding. That movie was depressing as fuck. Raising Arizona was his best movie.

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  • Pariah Scary @viperben.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? Moonstruck

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  • HorrorSloth (Sometimes Eric) @horrorsloth.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film?

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  • Brennan Ballard @brennanmoline.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    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

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  • Doctor B @theedoctorb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    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

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  • Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge (October) #MovieSky #Filmsky #nightflight 🎥🍿🎬 Day 6 Movie or TV character played by Elisabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

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  • Pedro @canhenha.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Elisabeth Shue, Sera, "Leaving Las Vegas" (directed by Mike Figgis). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #elisabethshue #leavinglasvegas #mikefiggis

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    "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...

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  • Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    'Leaving Las Vegas" is his only film. The rest are flicks.

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  • Farmer in Naw-Fuq @farmboi1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2025

    "Red Rock West"! Great film noir. First film Dwight Yoakam appeared in!!! He was amazing in "Leaving Las Vegas", as well!

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  • Wendy Nights @wendynights.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? The Sorcerer's Apprentice. He savored every single bite of that scenery.

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  • Ben Saari @bwsaari.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Without saying Leaving Las Vegas, fav Nicolas Cage film? #CageAPalooza

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  • vampire girlfriend 💀🎃 @mourningdoves.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    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

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  • Neat3Photography aka James @neat3.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    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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  • Patrick Bryant @patrickbryant.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2024

    College buddy of mine and his girlfriend wanted to see a movie over Christmas break. Her grandfather was visiting, so they invited him to join them. They chose "Leaving Las Vegas," thinking it was a sequel to "Honeymoon in Vegas." They both had Nic Cage!

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  • TattooedHorrorGranny @tattooedgranny.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    663) Leaving Las Vegas (1995) #NowWatching on @plex.tv #2026FirstTimeWatch 602 #FilmSky #LeavingLasVegas

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  • grammymae.bsky.social @grammymae.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    LEAVING LAS VEGAS SOUNDS LIKE A THING TO DO AND NOT A MOVIE.

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