![]() In 1973, sports handicapper and mafia associate Sam "Ace" Rothstein ( Robert De Niro) is sent to Las Vegas to run the Teamsters Union-funded Tangiers Casino on behalf of the Chicago Outfit, which secretly controls the Teamsters, while Philip Green ( Kevin Pollack) serves as the mob's frontman. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro ( Joe Pesci), his ex-hustler wife Ginger ( Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond ( James Woods) and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger. In the early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein ( Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. The film is based on the non-fiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. ![]() ![]() This marks the eighth collaboration of Scorsese and De Niro, with the two previously collaborating on the another hit mafia film Goodfellas (1990). ![]() Casino is a 1995 American epic crime] drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak and James Woods. ![]()
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