Last Days (2005 film)

Last Days
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGus Van Sant
Written byGus Van Sant
Produced byGus Van Sant
Dany Wolf
Starring
CinematographyHarris Savides
Edited byGus Van Sant
Music byRodrigo Lopresti
Michael Pitt
Production
company
Distributed byPicturehouse
Release date
  • July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)
Running time
97 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.4 million[2]

Last Days is a 2005 American drama film directed, produced and written by Gus Van Sant. It is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on Kurt Cobain. It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005 and was produced by HBO. The film stars Michael Pitt as the character Blake, based on Cobain. Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green and Thadeus A. Thomas also star in the film. This is the first film from Picturehouse, a joint venture between Time Warner's New Line Cinema and HBO Films subsidiaries to release art house, independent, foreign, and documentary films. The film polarized critics.

  1. ^ "LAST DAYS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 17, 2005. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Last Days at Box Office Mojo