The Last Casino (2004)

Directed by

Pierre Gill

Genre

drama, comedy

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of students is trained in card counting to take on casinos at blackjack. The film follows their scheme and the pressures that come with outsmarting the system.

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What happens

The Last Casino (also known by its French title, La Mise Finale) is a 2004 English-French-Cantonese-language Canadian drama film about a card counting scheme. The film was produced by Greg Dummett, Lorraine Richard and Madeleine Henri, directed by Pierre Gill and written by Steven Westren. The Last Casino stars Charles Martin Smith as Barnes, Katharine Isabelle as Elyse, Kris Lemche as Scott, Julian Richings as Orr and Albert Chung as George. The Last Casino draws heavily from the story of the MIT Blackjack Team. The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were trained by Bill Kaplan. Kaplan delayed his entrance to Harvard University because he believed he could create a mathematics model that would assist him in being successful at blackjack. In 1977, Kaplan turned $1000 into $35000 within a nine-month period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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