Hah. So I had never seen Leaving Las Vegas, but had seen Honeymoon in Vegas (another Nicolas Cage 90s movie), and my wife and I were actually in Vegas seeing Sarah McLachlan. She was introducing the song “Sweet Surrender” and was talking about how this song was based on Nicolas Cage’s Leaving Las Vegas. In my mind I was thinking of Honeymoon in Vegas and thought, “Huh. That’s really odd. I’m not seeing it.” Later I realized Leaving Las Vegas was a different movie. It made more sense at that point.
He plays a dude who drinks himself to death, i can relate...