Casino

"No one stays at the top forever."

1995 2h 59m EN

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Synopsis

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In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

“No one stays at the top forever.”

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Cast

Robert De Niro
Sam 'Ace' Rothstein
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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Languages: English
Countries: France, United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 179 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, United States of America.

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CAST

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321+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Martin Scorsese, shot by Robert Richardson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Thelma Schoonmaker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Martin Scorsese directs. Robert Richardson behind the camera. Thelma Schoonmaker cuts. A long sit — settle in. Profitable at the box office. Produced in France, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Clocks in at 179 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
331 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4International production across 2 countries: France, United States of America.
5321+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Martin Scorsese, shot by Robert Richardson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Editor Thelma Schoonmaker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "No one stays at the top forever.".
10IMDB entry: tt0112641 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 32 themes, including "drug abuse", "casino", "based on novel or book", "poker".

The technical file

Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker
Production design: Dante Ferretti
Costume design: John Dunn
Makeup / hair: Ken Diaz
VFX supervisor: Craig Barron
Sound: Tom Fleischman
Stunt coordinator: Doug Coleman
Runtime: 179 min · 2h 59m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $116,112,375
Return: 232% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Casino (1995)

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CinemaSerf2023-04-13
★ 8/10
You know, I think this might be my favourite Scorsese movie. He re-assembles his regular cast, adds a soupçon of Sharon Stone and proceeds to make three hours of cinema fly by. It all centres around the aspirational "Sam Rothstein" (Robert De Niro) who realises that there is a great deal of money to be made in Las Vegas in the 1970s. To that end, he is sent by his mafia bosses to run the "Tangiers" casino, hotel and general den of iniquity. Initially, though ruthless enough, he has a degree of decency to him, and when he falls in love with hustler "Ginger" (Sharon Stone) things seem to suggest that maybe he could be destined for the straight(-ish) and narrow. The same can not be said for his friend "Santoro" (Joe Pesci) who comes out to join him - ostensibly to make sure he stays safe - and is soon up to no good fleecing whatever and whoever to pay for his hedonistic lifestyle. It'd have been dull if all had gone to plan, and of course it doesn't - "Rothstein" has to deal with crooks, authorities (not that they are mutually exclusive), his increasingly rogue wife and his downright liability of a friend. Things come to an head when his wife and her former beau/pimp "Diamond" (James Woods) force his hand, the gaming commission wants his licence and "Santoro" - well, he is just toxic. Pesci only ever really has one style of acting, and this is perfect for that. He adds a distinctly plausible nastiness to his frankly rather odious character. Stone features a bit too sparingly perhaps, but she certainly steals the scenes she shares with a measured and confident De Niro very much at the top of his game. A nice little twist at the end works very well, too! It's stylishly photographed and has a great look to it - good stuff, this.
JackthePGL2025-08-19
★ 9/10
Casino is not really much remembered by many people but for those who are Martin Scorsese, they'll know what to get from this. It has the same cast from GoodFellas, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci but I still can't believe that I haven't seen Raging Bull which I really want to. And I think they both starred in Once Upon a Time in America and I've heard that it's a really long film. With Robert De Niro's last collaboration between Martin Scorsese, this film is based on true events of what happened in Las Vegas, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci played Sam Rothstein, aka "Ace" and Nicholas Santoro, aka "Nicky", They're both childhood friends in real-life. It's kind of an interesting story about those two friends are getting a lot of heat on Las Vegas of who's going to run the Casino. I really like this movie even though it is very similar to GoodFellas with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci narrating but what can I say, there's nothing wrong with that and this is a phenomenal film with great performances and story and it has some good tunes in it. I am a fan gangster flicks and anything else and that's that.