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By Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff | Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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4. Leaving Las Vegas

Ah, the second of Nicolas Cage’s Vegas-titled and-themed movies. Although Leaving Las Vegas does contain some drunken-humor moments, it’s safe to say that the movie is ever-so-slightly darker than Honeymoon in Vegas. The descent into feigned alcoholism paid off for Cage, however, netting him the Best Actor Oscar in 1996, and deservedly so. (The movie received an additional three nominations.) Cage plays screenwriter Ben Sanderson, who leaves Los Angeles for Las Vegas on an unstoppable mission to drink himself to death. Leaving paints a grimmer Sin City than perhaps we’ve ever seen on film, but it’s a necessary antidote to the wildly unrealistic version we're used to seeing.