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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: Nov 22, 1995
Running Time: 179 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and breathes the odds. He eventually doubles the mob's take and changes the rules of how the casinos are run. But he can't control the odds when it comes to Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. His infatuation with Ginger turns to obsession as she rises with him to the upper crust of society, then turns to the bottle and pills for consolation in her gilded cage. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Sam "Ace" Rothstein
Ginger McKenna
Nicky Santoro
Lester Diamond
Billy Sherbert
Andy Stone
Phillip Green
Pat Webb
Senator
Frank Marino
screenplay
Book as Source Material
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reviews
December 18, 2000
Expectations could kill Casino faster than any potshots from critics. Martin Scorsese is the man, the most viscerally exciting director of his generation, with such classics as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas to prove it. There's the rub. A pedestal makes a precarious perch. Any hint of dissatisfaction from the fickle crowd and down you go. Even before Casino opened, the black cloud of letdown hung over Scorsese's epic tale of mob infiltration of Las Vegas during the 1970s.
PETER TRAVERS -
June 2, 2005
Spookily enough, recent headlines about the FBI's cornering of real-life Mafiosi allegedly behind the murders of Tony and Michael Spilotro coincide with the ten-year anniversary of the film they helped inspire: Casino. "It's kind of a sequel to GoodFellas," Martin Scorsese says in the making-of documentary, nearly underselling this Vegas masterpiece, featuring Sharon Stone as the arch bitch, Robert De Niro as her sap and Joe Pesci as the perfect psycho.
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