Episode 92: Nic Cage Double Feature ( Leaving Las Vegas 1995 & Con Air 1997)
This week at The Film Club we're doing our first ever Double Feature episode. And what better way to have a Double Feature than make it about Nicolas Cage 90s movies. We'll be discussing Nicolas Cage's Oscar winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas and one of the most epic action movies of the 90s Con Air. In Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson is a raging alcoholic who's life is spiraling out of control. After his wife and child leave him he soon loses his job as screenwriter, which prompts him to make a drastic decision. Ben moves to Las Vegas where he has decided he's going to drink himself to death. Ben finds love in Las Vegas with a prostitute, but can her love for Ben save him? In Con Air Army Ranger Cameron Poe is incarcerated for involuntary manslaughter after protecting his pregnant wife from three drunken men trying to attack them. Cameron is behind bars for 10 years and is being released on his daughter's tenth birthday. To get home Cameron is hitching a ride on a new state of the arch prison airplane that is equipped to transport the most dangerous criminals around. After Cameron boards the plane with the rest of the inmates all hell breaks loose and now the inmates are in control. Will Cameron be able to safely get to his daughters tenth birthday? Join us as we dive into both of these iconic films.
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