 In the 1995 film "Leaving Las Vegas", Nicolas Cage plays a suicidal alcoholic who rids himself of all his possessions and travels to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.During his travels he experiences delirium tremens on a couch after waking up from a binge and crawls in pain to the refrigerator for more vodka.Cage's performance as Ben Sanderson in the film won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1995.