Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

1995 · 1 hr 51 min · R

Drama, Romance

Directors

Mike Figgis

Actors

  • Nicolas Cage
  • Elisabeth Shue
  • Julian Sands

Credits: 1

Summary

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.

More about this movie

Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Sanderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.