Leaving Las Vegas

Nicolas Cage received an Academy Award for his electrifying performance in this deliriously dark, dreamy antiromance, based on the novel by John O’Brien. Ben Sanderson (Cage) is a failed Hollywood screenwriter who, gripped by alcoholism and suicidal despair, arrives in Las Vegas with the intention of burning through all his money and drinking relentlessly until he dies. There, he forges an unexpected bond with sex worker Sera (Elisabeth Shue)—a fellow lost soul whom he draws into his self-destructive spiral.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands