Leaving Las Vegas

Cage terminally drunk in Las Vegas with Elisabeth Shue and lots of jazz/blues

An alcoholic in Los Angeles (Nicolas Cage) cashes out of the film industry and moves to Las Vegas to apparently drink himself to death. He meets a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) with whom he has a welcome affinity an...

A dense film, difficult to see, but one that should be seen, especially by young people who think that getting drunk is relevant to a night of fun.

This film is based on the true story of a man who lost his will to live after a complicated divorce and the end of his personal and professional ...

Is there any profession portrayed in cinema more likely to be an obnoxious alcoholic than an Hollywood screen writer? Well that's what "Ben" (Nicolas Cage) is and when he gets fired after one too many absences and foul-mouthed outbursts, he takes his redundancy cheque and his BMW and heads to Vegas....