I love you... The way you are.
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.
DramaRomancehotel roomdying and deathindividualprostitutelovesicknessrage and hatecasinounsociabilityalcohollove at first sightmovie businessscreenwriter
- Addiction
- Bleak ending
- Suicide or self-harm
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Character
Earnest, grave, overwhelming and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
76 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Thrill Chasers.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageBen Sanderson
- Elisabeth ShueSera
- Julian SandsYuri
- Richard LewisPeter
- Steven WeberMarc Nussbaum
- Kim AdamsSheila
- Emily ProcterDebbie
- Stuart RegenMan At Bar
- Valeria GolinoTerri
- Graham BeckelL.A. Bartender
Crew
- Mike FiggisDirector
- Mike FiggisScreenplay
- John O'BrienNovel
- Declan QuinnDirector of Photography
- Mike FiggisOriginal Music Composer
- John SmithEditor
- Lila CazèsProducer
- Annie StewartProducer
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