Robert Deniro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci are great, but Martin Scorcese's little Italian mother steals the show from them!

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2016)

Ace Rothstein (Robert Deniro) is a lean, mean Jewish American gambling machine put in charge of the Tangiers casino in the Las Vegas desert. Ace knows how to run the Tangiers in the way it should be run and will use hammers and vices on cheaters who want to defraud his casino. Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) is Ace's hot headed body guard of sorts who will in his own words not let anyone f-word with the Golden Jew. Ginger is Ace's wife who is a drug addicted gambler as well and Ace considers her to be the Queen of the Tangiers because she can bring gamblers in. She has her world in control except for her former pimp boyfriend Lester Diamond (James Woods). Even though Ginger is a wife and mother she won't let go of the hold Lester has over her!
All performers are excellent in their respective roles, but director Martin Scorcese's little Italian mother Catherine steals the show from these actors! She is so funny as the mother of one of the Mafia guys who lectures her son for dropping f-bombs and rolls her eyes when she can't stop his tirade! Catherine brings much needed comic relief to the movie and I think it's great Martin Scorcese brought his mother into the movie and turned her into a star! "Casino" is recommended for the performances and Scorcese's mother!