Ben is a big-time Hollywood player but destroys all of it because of his drinking. He becomes hell-bent on pursuing it to the end, and leaves it all behind to drink himself to death in Las Vegas. In the meantime he meets a whore named Sera (Elizabeth shue) who tries and fails to save him.

Nicolas Cage won the academy award for best actor in 1995 for his tragic role as Ben.





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