An Episode Guide by Pam Mitchelmore Last updated: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:00: aired from: Jul 1992to: May 1999 227 eps: FOX: 60 min: stereo: closed captioned. Casino is an amazing epic mobster film directed by the one and only Martin Scorsese. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci pull off outstanding performances. While this is a great, entertaining and truly thrilling film, it is 100% not for kids.

Martin Scorsese's fascinating new film 'Casino' knows a lot about the Mafia's relationship with Las Vegas. It's based on a book by Nicholas Pileggi, who had full access to a man who once ran four casinos for the mob, and whose true story inspires the movie's plot.

Like 'The Godfather,' it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place.

The movie opens with a car bombing, and the figure of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein floating through the air. The movie explains how such a thing came to happen to him. The first hour plays like a documentary; there's a narration, by Rothstein (Robert De Niro) and others, explaining how the mob skimmed millions out of the casinos.

It's an interesting process. Assuming you could steal 25 percent of the slot-machine take - what would you do with tons of coins? How would you convert them into bills that could be stuffed into the weekly suitcase for delivery to the mob in Kansas City? 'Casino' knows. It also knows how to skim from the other games, and from food service and the gift shops. And it knows about how casinos don't like to be stolen from.

There's an incident where a man is cheating at blackjack, and a couple of security guys sidle up to him and jab him with a stun gun.

He collapses, the security guys call for medical attention, and hurry him away to a little room where they pound on his fingers with a mallet and he agrees that he made a very bad mistake.

Rothstein, based on the real-life figure of Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal, starts life as a sports oddsmaker in Chicago, attracts the attention of the mob because of his genius with numbers and is assigned to run casinos because he looks like an efficient businessman who will encourage the Vegas goose to continue laying its golden eggs. He is a man who detests unnecessary trouble. One day, however, trouble finds him, in the person of Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a high-priced call girl.

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The Irishman

• 2019
• US
• 3h 30min
• 15

• Directed by: Martin Scorsese
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin
• UK release: 8 November 2019

The story of mob enforcer and union official Frank Sheeran (De Niro) and his relationship with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino) and Mafia string-puller Russell Bufalino (Pesci). The de-aging technology is easy to forgive thanks to the masterly filmmaking, and although there’s no room for a complex female character…

Manglehorn

• 2014
• US
• 1h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Gordon Green
• Cast: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina, Skylar Gasper
• UK release: 7 August 2015

Angelo Manglehorn (Pacino) is a lonely American locksmith, full of regret and disillusion, struggling with his relationship with his similarly damaged son (Messina.) A capricious, undisciplined effort, confronting difficult issues not wholly successfully but with intermittent charm, spells of well-executed humour and some…

Danny Collins

• 2015
• US
• 1h 46min
• 15

• Directed by: Dan Fogelman
• Written by: Dan Fogelman
• Cast: Melissa Benoist, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer
• UK release: 29 May 2015

Danny (Pacino) is an ageing rocker, still pumping out his old hits on tour, who receives a letter of advice written to him years earlier by John Lennon, but never sent, causing him to re-evaluate his life. Pacino is likeable as the shambolic, self-centred Danny.

Salome and Wilde Salome

• 2011 / 2013
• US

• Directed by: Al Pacino
• Cast: Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson
• UK release: 21 September 2014

Back to back screenings of Al Pacino's films based on Oscar Wilde's controversial play, with Jessica Chastain as the deadly Princess Salome.

Stand Up Guys

• 2012
• US
• 1h 35min

• Directed by: Fisher Stevens
• Written by: Noah Haidle
• Cast: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin
• UK release: 28 June 2013

Val (Pacino) is an ex-con who meets up with old friends Doc (Walken) and Hirsch (Arkin) for one last job – but Doc has reluctantly agreed to kill him. Stevens is less concerned with story than with knockabout badinage, and although the dialogue is weak and the plot predictable, it just about delivers.

Scarecrow

• 1973
• US
• 1h 52min
• 18

• Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
• Written by: Jerry Schatzberg
• Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
• UK release: 26 April 2013

The 1973 existentialist flick gets a re-release, featuring Pacino and Hackman as two drifters who partner up to head east together.

Jack and Jill

• 2011
• US
• 1h 31min
• 12

• Directed by: Dennis Dugan
• Written by: Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, Ben Zook
• Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino
• UK release: 3 February 2012

Advertising executive Jack (Sandler) gets Pacino (as himself) for a new cappuccino commercial, but all goes wrong when Jack's homely sister Jill (also Sandler) catches the great actor's eye and he inexplicably falls in love with her. Even dedicated Sandler fans will choke on their popcorn at this witless atrocity.

Salome

• 2011
• US
• 1h 35min

• Directed by: Al Pacino
• Cast: Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, Kevin Anderson

Pacino goes on the trail of Oscar Wilde's once banned Salome as he re-interprets this controversial play.

88 Minutes

• 2008
• US
• 1h 48min
• 15

• Directed by: Jon Avnet
• Written by: Gary Scott Thompson
• Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Deborah Kara Unger, Amy Brenneman, Neal McDonough, Benjamin McKenzie

Pacino plays Jack Gramm, a forensic scientist who finds himself framed for murder. Given 88 minutes to find the real culprit, Pacino wearily scrambles between police, suspects and a Death Row killer to prove his innocence. With a ludicrously cheesy cliffhanger climax, '88 Minutes' amounts to rank codswallop.

Righteous Kill

• 2008
• US
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: Jon Avnet
• Written by: Russell Gewirtz
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino, Brian Dennehy

New York police detective partners Rooster (Pacino) and Turk (De Niro) duke it out over a series of cop killings while staring admiringly at each other as if they're celebrating a diamond-wedding anniversary. When they met in Michael Mann's 'Heat' the anticipation was enormous but 13 years and a loss of kudos later, not…

Ocean's Thirteen

• 2007
• US
• 2h 1min
• PG

• Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Written by: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
• Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould

Soderbergh, with a knowing wink, takes a safe bet in returning with this heist franchise. Danny Ocean (Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Pitt) round up the gang against dastardly new casino owner Willy Banks (Pacino). Though comfy and often irritating, in parts it is very funny and the action set pieces are excellent.

Insomnia

• 2002
• US
• 1h 58min
• 15

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank

Pacino battles the endless summer days of the Arctic North as he tries to solve the murder of a local teen. Meanwhile, Williams puts on his 'serious actor' hat.

The Insider

• 1999
• US
• 2h 37min

• Directed by: Michael Mann
• Cast: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer

Crowe plays whistleblowing chemist Jeffrey Wigand in Mann's true-story drama about the fallout of Wigand's appearance in a 60 Minutes expose on Big Tobacco.

Donnie Brasco

• 1997
• US
• 2h 7min
• 18

• Directed by: Mike Newell
• Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen

A young undercover agent (Depp) forms a bond with his aging mob informant (Pacino).

Looking for Richard

• 1996
• US
• 1h 52min
• 12

• Directed by: Al Pacino
• Cast: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey

Pacino's debut directorial effort is a detailed analysis of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Heat

• 1995
• US
• 2h 50min
• 15

Casino 1995 Imdb Parents Guide Free

• Directed by: Michael Mann
• Written by: Michael Mann
• Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

Mann's star package cops-and-robbers tale is head and shoulders above the rest of the genre, thanks to an action-packed screenplay that fully explores its themes and gives depth to its characters. Pacino is the dedicated detective whose home life is in ruins; De Niro is the reclusive criminal mastermind. The two men's…

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Carlito's Way

• 1993
• US
• 2h 18min
• 18

• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Cast: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

A reformed convict pledges to stay away from the violence and dealings that got him into prison. However, the people around him who still live a life of crime make it difficult for him to let it go.

Glengarry Glen Ross

• 1992
• US
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: James Foley
• Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

David Mamet's sweary, blackly comic takes on the high-pressure world of real estate sales.

Scent of a Woman

• 1992
• US
• 2h 37min
• 15

• Directed by: Martin Brest
• Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn

A boisterous blind ex-general (Pacino) takes a preppie college kid (O'Donnell) under his wing in this hammy coming-of-age drama.

The Godfather Part III

• 1990
• US
• 2h 42min
• 15

• Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
• Cast: Al Pacino, Sofia Coppola, Andy Garcia

Coppolla's much-derided third instalment of the mafia saga is not quite as bad as people say, but it still fails to match up to the groundbreaking parts I & II. Don Corleone (Pacino) struggles to face a new set of challenges as he enters old age, including a romance between his daughter Mary (Coppolla's own daughter…

Sea of Love

• 1989
• US
• 1h 53min
• 18

• Directed by: Harold Becker
• Cast: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman

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A detective ends up getting involved with a woman who could be a suspect in the unsolved case of a serial killer.

Revolution

• 1985
• UK / Norway
• 2h 6min

• Directed by: Hugh Hudson
• Written by: Robert Dillon
• Cast: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski

A trapper becomes embroiled in the American Revolution in a bid to find his son, who has been drafted.

Scarface

• 1983
• US
• 2h 49min
• 18

• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Written by: Oliver Stone
• Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin

Tony Montana is back and loving it in a new digital print of the gangster classic.

Cruising

• 1980
• US, West Germany
• 1h 42min

• Directed by: William Friedkin
• Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen

A police officer goes undercover to investigate a serial killer targeting gay men in New York's underground S&M scene.