21 (2008)

Movie: 21 (2008)"Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben b
ecomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. Written by matt-282"
Director: Robert Luketic
Release Date: 11 April 2008 (UK)
Run Time: 123 min
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity.

Tagline: Inspired by the true story of five students who changed the game forever.Trivia: The printed source code for the robot is from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey GPS Toolbox.Goofs: Anachronisms: As the characters are passing through the airport headed to Sin City and are passing through the security checkpoint the screeners jacket has the TSA letters clearly visible, the TSA did not exist until after 9/11. Also in one of the strip flyby scenes, the unpronounceable symbol representing Prince is clearly visible on the Rio hotel and casino, yet Prince did not move his show to Vegas until 2006. Also, the Wynn is seen in a few shots, and it too didn't exist until 2006.

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