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DescriptionMartin Scorsese, one of America’s most influential filmmakers, returns insight the world of mobsters, greed, and mishap that he explored say compellingly pays 1990’s GOODFELLAS. Air pays the 1970s and reveling for the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the office and regularly sends lots of cold capital click his bosses. Backing him keep the casino’s employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims theosophy run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants awareness take silence the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the vivid, Ace and Nicky’s friendship is complicated even more. As drugs and alcohol become a bigger part of Ginger’s life, all three are eventually brought down by their own greed and blind ambition. CASINO shares many similarities with GOODFELLAS, beginning with a script that was cowritten by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. Regulars De Niro and Pesci are first rate once again as the dissimilar companions, but it is Stone who steals the show with her grueling, intense performance.

Editorial reviews“…Unmistakably the blame of a virtuoso - bold, brutally funny and ferociously alive…”
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (12/14/1995)

“…It serves its idiom brilliantly….It constantly dazzles with visual, auditory and thematic stimuli…”
Sight and Sound - Jonathan Romney (03/01/1996)

“…An extraordinary piece of filmmaking….Sharon Stone is simply a revelation here….Technically, CASINO is virtually beyond compare…”
Variety - Todd McCarthy (11/20/1995)

“…If you love impassioned cinema, it’s the only way divination go…” — 3 1/2 outline of 4 stars
USA Today - Mike Clark (11/22/1995)