Maureen O'Brien, John O'Brien When the author of Leaving Las Vegas died in 1994, he left three books in various stages of completion. One, The Assault on Tony's, was published last year.

The drama, an adaptation of a 1990 John O’Brien novel of the same name, follows the suicidal and alcoholic Ben Sanderson (Cage) as he moves to Las Vegas, where he plans to drink himself to death ...