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Casino (1995) 8.2
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8.2/10 from 199,896 users
Metascore: 73/100
Reviews: 482 user | 107 critic | 17 from Metacritic.com Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire. Director:Martin Scorsese |
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| Sharon Stone | ... | ||
| Joe Pesci | ... | ||
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| Frank Vincent | ... | ||
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Pasquale Cajano | ... | |
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Vinny Vella | ... | |
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
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Don't Push Your Luck. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong brutal violence, pervasive strong language, drug use and some sexuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
22 November 1995 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Kasino See more »Box Office
Budget:
$52,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
£3,834,340 (UK) (15 March 1996)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed, that's the kind of love I had.
[Ace's car explodes]
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Written by Russ Morgan & Larry Stock
Performed by Dean Martin
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under License from CEMA Special Markets
Published by Shapiro, Berstein & Co., Inc./Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc.
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Trivia
According to Alan King, Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, upon whom the Robert De Niro character was based, wanted Richard Widmark to play the lead in the film. However, Widmark was 80 years old by that time, and, therefore, not a practical choice. See more »Goofs
When Nicky, Frank Marino, Jennifer are in the kitchen after they return home from their flight, Nicky makes Jennifer turn her head upside down to have the diamonds he stole & smuggled through airport security fall out of her hair up-do onto the table. After all they all fall out, her hair "bun" releases and is hanging down in an undone, long ponytail. But immediately after that shot when the camera switches angles, Nicky slaps her on the cheek and her hair is back up in a bun the way it was originally. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed, that's the kind of love I had.
[Ace's car explodes]
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Soundtracks
"You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You"Written by Russ Morgan & Larry Stock
Performed by Dean Martin
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under License from CEMA Special Markets
Published by Shapiro, Berstein & Co., Inc./Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc.
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A complex, multilayered, beautifully directed film, Martin Scorsese's Casino is a masterpiece of destruction and betrayal. Few films take so many chances and succeed so wonderfully. It takes some of the basic formulas that were found in Goodfellas and applies them to another type of story - while Goodfellas' view was ground-level, telling the story of the "blue collar" gangsters of NYC, this film tells the story of the guys who controlled those guys. And it's fascinating to watch these people run Las Vegas, control the flow of money, and then fall from the heights of power due to lust, hubris, and greed. An amazing film that will hopefully get the recognition it deserves in the years to come.