Film legend Martin Scorsese directs Robert De Niro in this tale about the rise and fall of a Las Vegas gangster. Sharon Stone earned an Academy Award nomination. In particular, it draws from. It stars Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, and James Woods. In earlys Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky. The legendary Hollywood actor Sharon Stone looks back at the opulent costuming of Ginger in Martin Scorsese's Las Vegas masterpiece Casino. . The supporting. Ace Rothstein: Now you need approval from him to go home? Ginger: So what? So who fucking blew you in the parking lot before you came in, huh? On the surface, "Casino" is a neon-lit, stylish retread of Martin Scorsese's earlier work in the gangster genre. An ode to Sharon Stone in Casino as Ginger Mckenna, a tour de force showcase of female power at the epicentre of masculinity and excess. The film was the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese. Sharon Stone plays the psychotic Ginger, a once-in-a-lifetime role in that it was the only time in my life I could bear to watch her on film.