26-11-2025 16:00 via chicagoreader.com

Casino (1995) belongs in the Chicago film canon

At 422 “fucks” given, Casino premiered as the most profane movie ever in 1995. But Martin Scorsese’s Las Vegas mob epic drew the line at the C-word. That’s right: “Chicago.” The story was adapted by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi from the latter’s nonfiction book of the same name. (Pileggi also wrote Wiseguy in 1986 and […]
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