Robert De Niro (Casino/Cape Fear/The Good Shepherd) (2014)

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Movie Cover Details

Actors: Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Matt Damon

Directors: Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese

Language: English

Region: All Regions

Number of discs: 1

Rated: U/A (Parental Guidance)

Studio: Universal

Product Release Date: 30 Mar 2014

Movie Summary

Casino This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw. Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence. Cape Fear Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss. The Good Shepherd Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War and relationships with agency, British and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.

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