A self-destructive alcoholic writer decides he cannot take any more and heads for Las Vegas. He plans to drink himself to death in the glitzy gambling capital - but once there, he unexpectedly finds a soulmate in a fugitive prostitute who is prepared to accept him for what he is. Mike Figgis's drama, starring an Oscar-winning Nicolas Cage. With Elisabeth Shue and Julian Sands.

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.