Elisabeth Shue as Sera. This is a
                                  performance of fatal directness and grandeur...
Sera
                             is the human spirit clinging to hope without
                   good reason...There are moments in
Leaving Las Vegas in
                                         which Shue has to struggle only between
belief and
                                      despair. That is still the greatest action the
movies
                                      can deliver. Her performance is not just the
best we
                                      will see this year, it is something to put
beside
the
                                    screen's best examples of vulnerable courage
in a
                                          woman: Lillian Gish in 'The Wind,'
Ingrid Bergman
                                    in 'Notorious,' Danille Darrieux in
Max Ophuls'
                'Madame de...'

                              David Thomson - LOS
                              ANGELES

                                         Shue's entire nice-girl career in films
           hardly prepares
                                     one for the explicit rawness of her
   streetwise
          prostitute here.
                              David Bartholomew - FILM

                                         Her performance is a revelation.
                    Sensual and tough,
                                       it announces Shue's graduation
              from beaming
                      ingenue to serious,
                       full-blooded actress.
                                         John Powers - VOGUE

                                            ...a soul-baring turn that could catapult
                                               Shue into
                                               the ranks of those Hollywood
                                                  heavyweights who
                                                  play as tough as beautifully as they
                 play tender.
                              E.P. - BAZAAR

    'Vegas' is virtually a
          two-character
                        psychodrama and
                                         both performances are stunning.
                                                     Georgia Brown - VILLAGE
                                                                             VOICE

                                  Certainly, nothing in their previous
                                  work prepared
                                         me for the depth, subtlety and passion
                                                 they displays
                                                 here. [Shue and Cage]
                                                               are both so natural and
                                                                                             emotionally direct,
                                                  it's hard to know where the acting
                                                        ends and life takes over.
                              Rex Reed - THE NEW YORK
                              OBSERVER

                               Yeah, the first day [of
                                            prepping] we sat down and had about
                                                 six therapy
                                           sessions... it was incredible experience,
                                               to know that
                                              I knew who this person was in
                                          therapy emotionally,
                                             and it made me feel really strong
                                              about going into the
                movie...
                                                     Elisabeth Shue - SERA

                                               ...I got punched and went down...
                                          that was all fine.
                                                But the second one of the young
                                             boys just kneeled
                                              down, and he like grabbed me...
                                               and no one yelled
                                              'cut.' And for a second it was just
                                                 out of control. I
                                                   felt like it was out of control.
                                                                          Elisabeth Shue

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          -One of my favorite scenes is
              the scene at the bus stop. And
           saying, 'No, I don't want to
             have dinner with you.'
                And deep down just dying to,
                and needing him so badly.
                              Elisabeth Shue

..                                          .at the end of the day, the character
                                        Sera is not able
                                         to stand back and also, in the same way,
                                        the
                                     character of Ben is not able to be
                                       completely
                                        detached.
                                                            Mike Figgis - DIRECTOR

                                            There are always ideals and the people
                                          that get
                                              closest to the ideals are really
                                                 beautiful people... I
                                               need him to stay alive,
                                                   because he was keeping me
                                                 alive. And that's so to the core of
                                                     your soul. [To]
                                                  say, 'I love you so much that it's
                                                         okay for you to
                                                  die.' It wouldn't be a love story...

                                                     
                                                      Elisabeth Shue
 

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