And as the two stars play a pair of friends who travel the poker circuit attempting to pay off a debt, they build an engaging chemistry that bolsters the film’s quality through and through. Martin Scorseses fascinating new film 'Casino' knows a lot about the Mafias relationship with Las Vegas. Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal actually ran four casinos in Las Vegas. Casino was based upon a real casino boss, Frank Lefty Rosenthal. That is how cult classics tend to work, after all. The movie was filmed in the Riviera Casino in Vegas rather than on a set to give the scenes an authenticity a set could not provide. Here, then, are some weird, little-known and arguably useless facts about the movie Casino.
And that’s in spite of Matt Damon - fresh off his critically acclaimed screenwriting and acting efforts with Good Will Hunting (1997) - starring alongside Edward Norton, who just had an incredible string of films a few years prior, which included an Oscar-nominated performance in Primal Fear (1996).īut, again: Rounders (1998) is held in high regard today even with those initially negative numbers in mind. It received lukewarm responses from critics upon release, and didn’t even double its $12 million budget when playing in theaters throughout the world.
Directed by John Dahl, this is the only film on the list that has gone down as a true cult classic.
