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2008

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Starring	Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo
Director	Robert Luketic
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Drama

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21 is the fact based story about six M.I.T students who were trained in the art of card counting. They subsequently took the Vegas casinos for millions! Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and young Hollywood super star Kate Boswoth (Superman Returns) star in this clever and adrenaline filled heist film. An MIT math whiz is recruited by a teacher to join a specialized team of card counters. Based on Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Starring	Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Laurence Fishburne
Director	Robert Luketic
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 3 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Hot Hits, 100 Most Wanted
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Drama
Language	DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English
Subtitles	Blu-ray: Thai
Released	Production year: 2008 To Rent: DVD: 08 Sep 2008 Blu-ray: 08 Sep 2008

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- Based on the true story of a bunch of MIT geeks who hit Las Vegas for a winning run on the blackjack tables before... read more on Time Out
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  not that good a bit sow
  
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  Meh is a good word for it. Starts well, with a very good initial scene between Spacey and Sturgess but after that it kind of peters out into stodge and ... read more »
  
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  21 is a really great film. I highly recommend watching this film. I gave this film 5 out of 5 !!
  
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  Very good film...made even more brilliant knowing it is (loosly) based on true events. Fun characters, fun movie...and makes me wish I was better at maths
  
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Colin Farrell and Ed Harris are in final discussions to join the cast of Peter Weir's wartime drama The Way Back. Based on the memoirs of Slavomir Rawicz, the movie tells the story of a group of soldiers who attempt to escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942. According to Variety, Farrell will play a Russian in the movie, which is scheduled to start shooting in Bulgaria in March. Ed Harris is to play an American, while Jim Sturgess and 14-year-old Atonement actress Saoirse Ronan will portray a... Read more
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  Inspired by a true story, 21 mixes Las Vegas casino wheeling and dealing with college-kid angst. Kevin Spacey is crafty MIT professor Micky Rosa, who trains gifted students to count cards and then flies them out to Vegas to raid the blackjack tables between classes. At first they rake in a bundle, ...

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  21 is the fact based story about six M.I.T students who were trained in the art of card counting. They subsequently took the Vegas casinos for millions! Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and young Hollywood super star Kate Boswoth (Superman Returns) star in this clever and ...