Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of a self destructive Alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas.
Fast Facts
- Release date: October 27, 1995
- Director: Mike Figgis
- Screenwriter: Mike Figgis
- Based on the novel of the same name by John O'Brien
- Producers: Lila Cazes and Annie Stewart
- Distributor: United Artists Films
- Director of Photography: Declan Quinn
- Music: Mike Figgis
- MPAA rating: R
- Run time: 112 minutes
- Domestic box office gross: $32,029,928 1
Plot Summary
After losing his job and family, alcoholic Ben Sanderson (Nicholas Cage) goes to Las Vegas with the plan of literally drinking himself to death. He meets a prostitute named Sera (Elizabeth Shue), whose boyfriend/pimp has recently been murdered. Both desperate and lonely, the two find some degree of solace in each other's companionship.
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