Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death.

Leaving Las Vegas: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis. Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.

Nov 10, 1995 · In “Leaving Las Vegas,” a man loses his family and begins to drink himself to death. He goes to Vegas, and there on the street he meets a prostitute, who takes him in and cares for him, and he calls her his angel.

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Determined to end it all, a committed drinker picks Vegas as his last stop, but he finds comfort with a kind prostitute who needs help of her own. Subtitles : English Starring : Nicolas Cage Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands Richard Lewis Steven Weber

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

A man (Nicolas Cage) drinking himself to death finds solace with a hooker (Elisabeth Shue).

Apr 25, 2004 · Mike Figgis‘ “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995) is not a love story, although it feels like one, but a story about two desperate people using love as a form of prayer and a last resort against their pain. It is also a sad, trembling portrait of the final stages of alcoholism.

Experience Nicolas Cage's Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas. A screenwriter determined to drink himself to death finds an unlikely connection with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) seeking escape from her own troubled life.