After Ace (Robert De Niro) tries to get Nicky (Joe Pesci) out of town, the two meet in the desert as Nicky gives Ace a piece of his mind. TM & © Universal (2011) Buy Movie: www.amazon.com Scene: Meeting in the Desert - movieclips.com Movie Details: Casino (1995) - movieclips.com Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci Director: Martin Scorsese Producer: Barbara De Fina, Joseph P. Reidy Screenwriter: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi Film Description: Casino is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. Robert De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Jewish-American top gambling handicapper who is called by the Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on Frank Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s. Joe Pesci plays Nicky Santoro, based on real-life mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro. Nicky is sent to Vegas to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and that the mobsters in Vegas are kept in line. Sharon Stone plays Ginger, Ace's self-obsessed and devious wife, a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. When released, Casino had the most uses of the word "fuck" (422) in a feature length ...