Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

I love you... The way you are.

1995111 min7.3 / 10

A bleak, intimate portrait of two damaged people bound by mutual self-destruction and a fragile, doomed love in the neon wasteland of Las Vegas.

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.

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