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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.
Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) [1] is an American actress. She has starred in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Piranha 3D (2010), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Death Wish (2018), and ...
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 Cage the Academy Award for Best Actor , and earning Shue a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and screenwriter/director Mike Figgis nominations for the Academy Award for Best ...
In the film, Cage plays a self-destructive screenwriter who falls in love with a sex worker played by Elisabeth Shue. Cage was later nominated for a second Oscar, for playing a pair of twins in ...
In a recent podcast interview, director Mike Figgis shared that he and 'Leaving Las Vegas' star Nicolas Cage were not paid the $100,000 they were promised.
Cage in 2006. Nicolas Cage is an American actor whose career began with a role in the 1981 television pilot The Best of Times.The following year, Cage made his feature film acting debut with a minor role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the second and last time he went by his birth name Nicolas Coppola, which he changed professionally to avoid allegations of nepotism due to his connection to ...
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), [1] [2] known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades , including an Academy Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award , and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards .
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