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.

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Casino (1995)

No one stays at the top forever.

★ 8/10 November 22, 1995 179 min

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Director: Martin Scorsese  ·  Writers: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

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.

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Director

Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro Robert De Niro Sam 'Ace' Rothstein Sharon Stone Sharon Stone Ginger McKenna Joe Pesci Joe Pesci Nicky Santoro James Woods James Woods Lester Diamond Don Rickles Don Rickles Billy Sherbert Alan King Alan King Andy Stone Kevin Pollak Kevin Pollak Phillip Green L.Q. Jones L.Q. Jones Pat Webb Dick Smothers Dick Smothers Senator Frank Vincent Frank Vincent Frank Marino John Bloom John Bloom Don Ward Pasquale Cajano Pasquale Cajano Remo Gaggi

User Reviews (2)

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf April 13, 2023
★ 8/10

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 hav…

JackthePGL
JackthePGL August 19, 2025
★ 9/10

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 b…