Casino
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.
Sharon Stone....Ginger McKenna
Joe Pesci....Nicky Santoro
James Woods....Lester Diamond
Don Rickles....Billy Sherbert
Alan King....Andy Stone
Kevin Pollak....Phillip Green
L.Q. Jones....Pat Webb
Dick Smothers....Senator
Frank Vincent....Frank Marino
John Bloom....Don Ward
Pasquale Cajano....Remo Gaggi
Melissa Prophet....Jennifer Santoro
Bill Allison....John Nance
Vinny Vella....Artie Piscano
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