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Casino
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- 1995
- Martin Scorsese
- 178 mins
- 18
Summary
Crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci. Las Vegas in the early 1970s: Sam "Ace" Rothstein runs the Tangiers casino for the Mob, a front for its money laundering operation, but the slick set up is threatened when Nicky Santoro, an unsavoury friend from Rothstein's past, arrives in town looking for trouble. With his business on the brink of disaster, Rothstein falls in love with hooker Ginger McKenna.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Alan Jones
It's GoodFellas goes to Las Vegas as director Martin Scorsese returns to the mean streets of urban America, with which he is so familiar, for Casino, a hugely underrated and shocking tale of power, money and depravity, set in a city where you can bet on everything and all dreams are sold for cash. Scorsese's disturbing film is basically about the Mafia, adrift in the 1970s without its warped code of "moral" and "family" values to keep it in check. Robert De Niro plays Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a master bookie turned big-shot casino manager whose head for business deserts him when he marries ex-hooker Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone). But it's when Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), Ace's boyhood acquaintance, arrives in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that things take a further downward spiral. Written by Nicholas Pileggi, an Oscar nominee for GoodFellas, Casino goes for absorbing realism, intriguing subplots and expertly drawn characters - Stone is an absolute revelation in her demanding role - who are even less endearing than their counterparts in GoodFellas, making for a more even portrayal of organised crime. Some of the scenes are squirmingly unpleasant in Scorsese's trademark way: a victim's head being squeezed in a vice is one of the more extreme examples of the graphic brutality that's on display in this unflagging and compelling study of how mobsters drowned in the sleaze of their own making.
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rolenameSam "Ace" RothsteinRobert De NiroGinger McKennaSharon StoneNicky SantoroJoe PesciLester DiamondJames WoodsBilly SherbertDon RicklesAndy StoneAlan KingPhillip GreenKevin PollakPat WebbL Q JonesSenatorDick SmothersFrank MarinoFrank VincentRemo GaggiPasquale CajanoJennifer SantoroMelissa ProphetJohn NanceBill Allison
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rolenameDirectorMartin Scorsese
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Theatrical distributor
U.I.P. (UK)
Released on
1996-02-23
Languages
English
Guidance
Contains violence, swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse and nudity.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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