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A man (Nicolas Cage) drinking himself to death finds solace with a hooker (Elisabeth Shue). 2,122 IMDb 7.5 1 h 51 min 1996. 18+. Drama · Romance · Bleak · Compelling. Subscribe to Max for $9.99/month.
Watch Leaving Las Vegas (HBO) and more new movie premieres on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Nicolas Cage gives an Oscar-winning performance as an alcoholic screenwriter who hits rock bottom and decides to end it all by drinking himself to death in Sin City.
Oct 31, 2019 · Leaving Las Vegas would go on to huge box-office success, taking a huge $49 million from that $4 million, or thereabouts, budget. Cage would go on to his big-budget action-movie period shortly ...
Leaving Las Vegas is a semi-autobiographical 1990 novel by John O'Brien. The novel was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one. O'Brien died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound within weeks of signing away the film rights to the novel.
Brief Synopsis. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag.
Nicolas Cage garnered a Best Actor Oscar for his hauntingly disturbing portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic who falls for a compassionate Las Vegas prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) in one of the year's most critically acclaimed films.
