Leaving Las Vegas
by John O'Brienliterary work· published 1990
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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 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 Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. O'Brien died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound within weeks of signing away the film rights to the novel.
Adaptations (1)
Leaving Las Vegas was adapted into a 1995 film.
Leaving Las Vegas1995 · film · 111 min · dir. Mike Figgis · IMDb ↗Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
