Cole Williams, the head of security at Planet Hollywood, has been monitoring the team and begins to focus on Ben.īen's devotion to blackjack causes him to neglect his role in an engineering competition, which estranges him from his friends. The team is impressed by Ben's skill, but Fisher becomes jealous and fights him while drunk, leading Micky to expel him. Over many weekends, the team is flown to Las Vegas and Ben comes to enjoy his luxurious life as a high roller. Using card counting and covert signalling, they increase their probability of winning at casinos, leading them to earn substantial profits. After looking at Ben's 97% score on his latest non-linear equations test, Micky invites Ben to join the MIT Blackjack Team, consisting of fellow students Choi, Fisher, Jill and Kianna. Despite having a Medical College Admission Test score of 44 (at the time, MCAT scoring was on a scale of 3-45) and high grades, he faces fierce competition, and is told by the director that the scholarship will only go to whichever student dazzles him.īack at MIT, Professor Micky Rosa challenges Ben with the Monty Hall Problem, which he solves.

He applies for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship, which would cover the entire cost. 21 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, despite some mixed reviews.īen Campbell, a mathematics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 tuition.

IMDb offers a brief summary of the film: '21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Las Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.' The film stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh.

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. 21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

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