Tracy Thorne

Leaving Las Vegas -- Nicolas Cage garnered a Best Actor Oscar for his hauntingly disturbing portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic who falls for a compassionate Las Vegas prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) in one of the year's most critically acclaimed films.

A married black man travels to see his old friend but winds up in an act of infidelity with a beautiful white woman. Co-starring Robert Downey, Jr.

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood talent rep, loses his job because of his drinking. Despondent, he goes to Las Vegas to end his life in one final binge. But, on the Strip, his plans are interrupted when he meets Sera...a street-smart hooker. Ben and Sera's chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as these two disenfranchised souls form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable. Based upon the novel by John O'Brien.

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.