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Casino is a 1995 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi
and Larry Shandling. Robert De Niro
stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a top gambling handicapper who is called by the mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the mob from the 1970s until the early 1980s.

Joe Pesci
plays Nicky Santoro, based on the real-life Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, an enforcer for the Chicago mob. Santoro is sent to Vegas by the bosses to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and that the casinos and mobsters in Vegas are kept in line. Sharon Stone
plays Rothstein's wife, Ginger, a role that earned her a Golden Globe win and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
.

Pileggi has described Casino as Scorsese's last installment to his gangster trilogy, supplementing Mean Streets
and Goodfellas
. However, the film has more obvious stylistic connections to the latter (Goodfellas), Scorsese's early 1990s cinematic masterpiece. Also, both films were based on a book by Pileggi and starred De Niro and Pesci. For these reasons, many critics consider Casino an unofficial sequel to Goodfellas, which may account for Casino's critical reputation not being as high as Scorsese's other films. However, many of Scorsese's fans and supporters consider Casino one of his best and feel that the film is underrated due to its unfair comparison to Goodfellas.

The film is noted for having many uses of the word "fuck"
.

Characters and whom they are based

  • Sam "Ace" Rothstein: Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal
  • Nicky Santoro: Tony "the Ant" Spilotro
  • Ginger McKenna/Rothstein: Geri McGee/Rosenthal
  • Frank Marino: Frank Culotta
  • Remo Gaggi: Joseph Aiuppa
  • Andy Stone: Allen Dorfman
  • John Nance: Jay Vandermark
  • Billy Sherbert: Murray Ehrenberg
  • Dominick Santoro: Michael Spilotro
  • Artie Piscano: Carl Deluna
  • The Tangiers Casino: The Stardust Casino
  • Phillip Green: Allen Glick
  • Lester Diamond: Lenny Marmor
  • K.K. Ichikawa : Akio Kashiwagi
  • Anna Scott: Tamara Rand
  • Senator: Harry Reid

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