21
Title:
21
Author:
Brunetti, Dana.
Publication Information:
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy. They are being trained by Micky the skill of blackjack card counting. 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. Ben makes hundreds of thousands of dollars winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition and then back out. Ben's greed and arrogance put Micky, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams. Cole holds a personal grudge of some kind against Micky which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
General Note:
Title from container.
Based on the book 'Bring down the house: the inside story of six M.I.T. students who took Vegas for millions' by Ben Mezrich.
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and sexual content, including partial nudity.
Corporate Subject:
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781435924390
UPC:
043396267206
043396267183
Format :
DVD
