Casino Page #4

Synopsis: In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. 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. Martin Scorsese directs this adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi's book.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1995
178 min
5,451 Views


NANCE leaves the casino and gets into a cab parked at the

curb.

EXT. KANSAS CITY AIRPORT - DAY

NANCE arrives. He is greeted by ARTIE PISCANO, a gray-haired

sixty-year-old underboss.

TITLE IN:
'KANSAS CITY'

NICKY (V.O.)

That suitcase was all the bosses

ever wanted ...and they wanted it

every month.

PISCANO:

Hey, John, how are you? How was your

ride?

EXT. SAN MARINO ITALIAN GROCERY, KANSAS CITY - DAY

NANCE, with suitcase, and PISCANO leave the car and enter

the produce market.

NICKY (V.O.)

Now this old Mormon f*** here...

CUT TO:
NANCE, AS HE GETS OUT OF PISCANO'S CAR

INT. SAN MARINO ITALIAN GROCERY, KANSAS CITY - DAY

NANCE and PISCANO walk through the grocery store, through

the warehouse, past various employees to a doorway leading

into the back room, where they are greeted by five older men

around a large wooden table with bowls of macaroni and old

jelly glasses filled with red wine.

NICKY (V.O.)

...he had to fly in with suitcases

once a month, nice and easy.

NANCE:

Somethin' smells good.

PISCANO:

Yeah, they made us somethin' to eat.

NICKY (V.O.)

The bosses would come from all over

the place:
Detroit, Cleveland,

Milwaukee. All over the Midwest.

And they would meet in the back of

this produce market in Kansas City.

I mean, nobody even knew.

NANCE shakes hands with AMERICO CAPELLI, sixty-eight, a bald,

affable Milwaukee entrepreneur and ARTHUR CAPP, his thirty-

year-old yuppie lawyer son.

Camera continues to pan around the room.

NICKY (V.O.)

One of the guys made his mother do

all the cooking.

On VINCENT BORELLI, seventy-year-old Kansas City boss.

BORELLI:

Did you ever see that guy Jerry

Steriano?

On VINNIE FORLANO, mid-seventies, an old-timer who once drove

for Capone and is now Remo Gaggi's right-hand man.

FORLANO:

Jerry Steriano?

BORELLI:

Yeah.

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Nicholas Pileggi

Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933) is an American producer, author and screenwriter. more…

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