21 (2008)

Directed by

Robert Luketic

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 5,077 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

College students are recruited by their professor to count cards in Las Vegas. They start winning big money, but the casino security gets suspicious.

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What happens

21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film is inspired by the story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the best-selling 2003 book by Ben Mezrich. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh. Reviews from critics were mixed, and it was a box office success and was the number one film in the United States and Canada during its first and second weekends of release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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