Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue give arguably career best performances in this poignant tale, wherein the former plays a suicidal Hollywood executive who travels to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, and the latter a high end prostitute who is moved by his plight and falls in love with him. Despite its very American settings of LA and Vegas, this feels more like a European film then an American one. Not in a hurry, reflective, the film boasts some left field cameos and a really individual soundtrack. I wasn't emotionally moved as much as I was hopping to be, but the movie still produces an idocentric form of wonder and awe that is memorable. ***1/2
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