Director Martin Scorsese’s epic about the Mafia’s relationship with Las Vegas, Casino is a dazzling cinematic mixture of operatic visuals, rich dialogue, fantastic sets, and vividly portrayed characters.Adapted by Scorsese and author Nicholas Pileggi from his own titular non-fiction book (following their Oscar®-winning collaboration with Goodfellas), this tragic-comic tale of greed and hubris with its blend of dark humour, brutal violence and a career-best Oscar®-nominated performance from Sharon Stone is pure Scorsese.
As the king of his domain, casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cold cash to his bosses. Helping him keep the casino's employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims to run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants to take over the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the picture, Ace and Nicky's friendship is complicated even further.
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Martin Scorsese | United States, France | 1995 | 179 mins | 18
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