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My Review:
Kevin Spacey stars and produces 21, a movie both about the game, and coming of age. A brilliant MIT student looking to pay the tuition for Harvard Med gets caught up in a team of card-counters led by one of their professors. During the week he’s the nerdy college kid. On weekends he’s the high roller in Vegas. Based on a true story. Kate Bosworth plays the love interest and teammate. Very well done, compelling story, great characters. And some life lessons thrown in for good measure. Some violence, some moral dilemmas – good conversation starters for teens.
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- -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.
