Last Days is a 2005 American
drama film directed, produced, and written by
Gus Van Sant, and 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 Kurt Cobain;
Lukas Haas,
Asia Argento, and Scott Patrick Green 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 received mixed-to-negative reviews. Though meant to be based on Kurt Cobain, it contradicts the factual evidence of Cobain's final days.