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Leaving las vegas is the academy award winning movie, starring nicolas cage and elisabeth shue, based on the novel by john obrien. His father says that the novel was his suicide note. John obriens debut novel, leaving las vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Buy leaving las vegas by obrien, john from amazons fiction books store. Nicholas cage and elizabeth shue jay mcinerney, author of bright lights, big city. Leaving las vegas by john obrien overdrive rakuten. Director mike figgis contemplated abandoning the project, but decided the film would make a good memorial for obrien. He died at the age of 34 by a self inflicted gunshot two weeks after learning that leaving las vegas, published four years earlier, would be made into a movie. Around the time that mike figgis began production of leaving las vegas, john obrien, the author of the book upon which the film is based, shot himself in the head.
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