Mike Figgis based Leaving Las Vegas on a 1990 autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, who died of suicide in April 1994, shortly after finding out his novel was being used as the basis for a film. Despite basing most of his screenplay on O'Brien's novel, Figgis spoke of a personal attachment with the novel, stating "Anything I would do would be because I had a sympathetic feeling towards it. That's why I did Mr. Jones, because I think manic-depression is a fascinating, sad, and amazing phenomenon. It's not a coincidence that some of the greatest artists have been manic-depressives. That made it, to me, a fascinating subject that, alas, did not come out in the film."
Leaving Las Vegas
(1995)| Country | |
| Runtime | 1 hr 52 min |
| Budget | $4 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | December 1, 1995 |
| Box Office – Budget | $28 029 928 |
| Premiere: USA | $32 029 928 October 27, 1995 |
| theaters | 1310 |
| rollout | 432 days |
| Digital: World | April 28, 2009 |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, ... |
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