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Directed by | Gus Van Sant |
Written by | Gus Van Sant |
Produced by | Gus Van Sant Dany Wolf |
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Cinematography | Harris Savides |
Edited by | Gus Van Sant |
Music by | Rodrigo Lopresti Michael Pitt |
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Distributed by | Picturehouse |
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Running time | 97 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.