Casino

11/22/19952h 59m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ No one stays at the top forever. ~

Overview:

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$50,000,000.00

Revenue:

$116,112,375.00

Key words:

drug abuse
casino
based on novel or book
poker
italian american
gambling
1970s
fbi
pimp
greed
cocaine
overdose
marriage
car bomb
rise and fall
money
murder
organized crime
mafia
jewish american
las vegas
desert
safe deposit box
1980s
dramatic
brutal violence
fbi surveillance

Cast

Robert De Niro

~ as ~

Sam "Ace" Rothstein

Sharon Stone

~ as ~

Ginger McKenna

Joe Pesci

~ as ~

Nicky Santoro

James Woods

~ as ~

Lester Diamond

Don Rickles

~ as ~

Billy Sherbert

Alan King

~ as ~

Andy Stone

Kevin Pollak

~ as ~

Phillip Green

L.Q. Jones

~ as ~

Pat Webb

Dick Smothers

~ as ~

Senator

Frank Vincent

~ as ~

Frank Marino

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Reviews (2)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
8
You know, I think this might be my favourite Scorsese movie. He re-assembles his regular cast, adds a soupçon of Sharon Stone and proceeds to make three hours of cinema fly by. It all centres around the aspirational "Sam Rothstein" (Robert De Niro) who realises that there is a great deal of money to be made in Las Vegas in the 1970s. To that end, he is sent by his mafia bosses to run the "Tangiers" casino, hotel and general den of iniquity. Initially, though ruthless enough, he has a degree of decency to him, and when he falls in love with hustler "Ginger" (Sharon Stone) things seem to suggest that maybe he could be destined for the straight(-ish) and narrow. The same can not be said for his friend "Santoro" (Joe Pesci) who comes out to join him - ostensibly to make sure he stays safe - and is soon up to no good fleecing whatever and whoever to pay for his hedonistic lifestyle. It'd have been dull if all had gone to plan, and of course it doesn't - "Rothstein" has to deal with crooks, authorities (not that they are mutually exclusive), his increasingly rogue wife and his downright liability of a friend. Things come to an head when his wife and her former beau/pimp "Diamond" (James Woods) force his hand, the gaming commission wants his licence and "Santoro" - well, he is just toxic. Pesci only ever really has one style of acting, and this is perfect for that. He adds a distinctly plausible nastiness to his frankly rather odious character. Stone features a bit too sparingly perhaps, but she certainly steals the scenes she shares with a measured and confident De Niro very much at the top of his game. A nice little twist at the end works very well, too! It's stylishly photographed and has a great look to it - good stuff, this.
JackthePGL
Written 3 month(s) ago
9
Casino is not really much remembered by many people but for those who are Martin Scorsese, they'll know what to get from this. It has the same cast from GoodFellas, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci but I still can't believe that I haven't seen Raging Bull which I really want to. And I think they both starred in Once Upon a Time in America and I've heard that it's a really long film. With Robert De Niro's last collaboration between Martin Scorsese, this film is based on true events of what happened in Las Vegas, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci played Sam Rothstein, aka "Ace" and Nicholas Santoro, aka "Nicky", They're both childhood friends in real-life. It's kind of an interesting story about those two friends are getting a lot of heat on Las Vegas of who's going to run the Casino. I really like this movie even though it is very similar to GoodFellas with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci narrating but what can I say, there's nothing wrong with that and this is a phenomenal film with great performances and story and it has some good tunes in it. I am a fan gangster flicks and anything else and that's that.