Casino

Sam Ace Rothstein is sent by the Chicago mob to run the Tangiers Casino in 1970s Las Vegas turning it into a massive money-skimming operation. His childhood friend Nicky Santoro arrives to protect him and starts carving his own violent empire. His marriage to the volatile Ginger McKenna adds a third axis of self-destruction. Scorsese’s companion piece to Goodfellas is longer and more operatic and Sharon Stone’s Ginger is one of cinema’s great tragic figures — a woman consumed by forces she never fully understands.