Casino (1995) is a crime epic about Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a brilliant sports handicapper sent by the Chicago mob to run the Tangiers casino in 1970s Las Vegas, where he turns it into a tightly controlled money-printing machine while the bosses skim unreported cash from the count room. His ordered world unravels after two explosive forces enter his life: his childhood friend Nicky Santoro, a violent enforcer whose robberies, shakedowns, and murders bring FBI heat, and Ginger McKenna, a glamorous h