In Las Vegas, two best friends - a mafia enforcer and a casino executive - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.In Las Vegas, two best friends - a mafia enforcer and a casino executive - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.In Las Vegas, two best friends - a mafia enforcer and a casino executive - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total
- Dominick Santoro
- (as Phillip Suriano)
The Movies of Martin Scorsese
The Movies of Martin Scorsese
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMost of the conversations between Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci were improvised. Martin Scorsese would tell them where to start and where to end. The rest was up to them.
- GoofsAfter the failed car bombing, Sam is put into the ambulance feet-first. People are loaded into ambulances head-first, since most of the monitoring equipment is in the front.
- Quotes
Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.
- Crazy credits"This is a fictional story with fictional characters adapted from a true story."
- Alternate versionsFinnish VHS release is cut by 1 minute. Notable cuts were:
- Tony Dogs being tortured with the vice
- Baseball bat killings
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cops (1994)
- SoundtracksMatthäuspassion BMV
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (uncredited)
Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Georg Solti (as Sir Georg Solti)
Courtesy of the Decca Record Company Limited, London
by Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Licensing
The film is unusual in that it has two leading men with parallel stories. Sometimes Ace and Nicky (Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci) were in scenes together....often they were apart...each doing his own thing. As for Ace, he was a smart man who was in charge of one of Vegas' top casinos. He was tough...but basically honest for a mobster. As for Nicky, as you'd expect with a Joe Pesci character, he's a bit of a nut-job....often out of control and letting anger govern most of his decisions. Unlike Ace who had a veneer of honesty about him, Nicky was a hood...and didn't mind this. Eventually, the pair end up having a downfall. How and what happens to each you'll have to see for yourself.
The parts of this film I enjoyed the most were when you learned about how Vegas operated. Seeing Ace dealing with crooked gamblers was especially interesting. And, in this sense, I enjoyed the film much more than "Goodfellas"...also with the same stars and same director. This is because "Goodfellas" was mostly just about violence and crime...whereas "Casino" seemed to have more story and wasn't always about excessive violence and nastiness...not that the film is in any way a 'nice' picture. It's filled with obscenities, nasty folks and a few scenes of horrific violence. Think about this before you decide whether or not to see the movie.
By the way, this is only a personal choice and doesn't really affect the movie much, but one thing I did not love about the film is the omnipresent pop music....which at times made the film seem like a music video. I think less of this would have been nice.
- planktonrules
- Dec 29, 2021
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- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Sòng Bạc
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $52,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $42,512,375
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,946,480
- Nov 26, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $116,112,375
- Runtime2 hours 58 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1