![]() But it's a testament to how good a job she did that we hate her so much. Of course we hate her, that's her character. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice. Stone won a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination for her role. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. How that little scallywag of a robber in Home Alone came from as hard a bastard as that in Casino and Goodfellas, I do not know! He pulls it off like no one else! The De Niro / Pesci pairing is just perfect. Of course it has such an evil side, but gets me every time. Sharon Stone gives a strong performance as his wife, Ginger, while Joe Pesci portrays Rothstein's lifelong friend, the violent and unstable Santoro. These movies in a very strange way always make me wish I'd been part of that life. Robert De Niro stars as 'Ace' Rothstein, the gambler with Mafia connections who runs a large Vegas casino, the Tangiers. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over. In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. I just love that this (along with Goodfellas) is so closely tied to real life events. R 2 hr 59 min Nov 16th, 1995 Crime, Drama. The music, the actors, the scenes, everything he does is just perfect. Scorsese just has a way of making a movie. Can't count the number of times I've watched them. I put them very close together (Goodfellas a little higher).
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