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The story of a Jewish front man for the Las Vegas Mob and his wife who jinxes the operation. Based on the real-life story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro. Read more

Starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles
Director Martin Scorsese
Genres Drama

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Casino

The story of a Jewish front man for the Las Vegas Mob and his wife who jinxes the operation. Based on the real-life story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro.

Starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, James Woods
Director Martin Scorsese
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 57 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs 58 mins
HD DVD: 2 hrs 58 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Dubbed Hungarian
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Released DVD: 15 Jul 2002
Blu-ray: 24 Nov 2008
HD DVD: 29 Oct 2007
Production year: 1995
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  • 4 stars out of 5

    It's Goodfellas goes to Las Vegas as director Martin Scorsese returns to the mean streets of urban America, with which he is so familiar, for Casino, a hugely under-rated and shocking tale of power, money and depravity, set in a city where you can bet on everything and all dreams are sold for cash. Scorsese's disturbing film is basically about the Mafia adrift in the 1970s without its warped code of “moral” and “family” values to keep it in check. Robert De Niro plays Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a master bookie turned big-shot casino manager whose head for business deserts him when he marries ex-hooker Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone). But it's when Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), Ace's boyhood acquaintance, arrives in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that things take a further downward spiral. Written by Nicholas Pileggi, an Oscar nominee for Goodfellas, Casino goes for absorbing realism, intriguing subplots and expertly drawn characters Stone is an absolute revelation in her demanding role who are even less endearing than their counterparts in Goodfellas, making for a more even portrayal of organised crime. Some of the scenes are squirmingly unpleasant in Scorsese's trademark way: a victim's head being squeezed in a vice is one of the more extreme examples of the graphic brutality that's on display in this unflagging and compelling study of how the mobsters drowned in the sleaze of their own making.

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  • 3 stars out of 4

    Deft, involving and intriguing depiction of the inescapable corruption of the spirit, in a city built on greed. It begins in a leisurely, documentary style before focusing on individuals as flawed as the system they operate and as expendable as the chips

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  • 28 out of 33 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Elegy for the apogee of the mob

    Las Vegas has never looked more beautiful or more seductive as we are lead through more than a decade of the rise and fall of the mafia empire in the desert. This is not a sanitisation. There is extreme violence. But even that is unforgettably staged and photographed.

    It is a long film, nearly 3 hours, but it never slackens its grip for a moment. This is all the more extraordinary an achievement, given that there's so much story it is crammed into voiceover, or rather two strands of variably reliable voiceover.

    Sharon Stone won an Oscar for her portrayal of Ginger, the casino boss's wife and sometime hooker, but there's not a bad performance in it. Every character, though at best venial, is so sharply realised you care about them.

    In my book this exceeds The Godfather.

      • gesh from LONDON
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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Disappointment

    Wow, really disappointed with this one. Some great actors and some good acting, but really drawn out, and got to say, at times, pretty boring!

      • A customer from England
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32,394 Member ratings
  • 100
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4,551
  • 80
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  • 70
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2,072
  • 40
974
  • 30
559
  • 20
401
  • 10
203

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