With a deservedly Oscar-winning performance from Nic Cage, Leaving Las Vegas is a downbeat exploration of a suicidal alcoholic and the only woman - - Elisabeth Shue's troubled hooker - - who accepts him for what he is. While the subject matter is undeniably depressing, there's still enough warmth and humour to prevent it becoming relentlessly bleak. Mike Figgis' best offering in donkey's.
DVD Extras:
Five-minute behind-the-scenes feature, theatrical trailer.Sadly, this is an extremely shabby disc, which throws together a terrible transfer of the film (picture quality is well below the normal DVD standard, while the sound is Pro-logic rather than full-blown 5.1) with a so-short-it's-pointless Making Of. Frankly, you'd be far better off to just go out and purchase this on VHS: it'll be just as depressing in one sense, but far more depressing in another.
