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Published
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008].
Format
Blu-ray
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
1424873401, 9781424873401
UPC
043396215290

Notes

General Note
Blu-ray disc.
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Russell Carpenter ; editor, Elliot Graham ; music, David Sardy ; costume designer, Luca Mosca ; production designer, Missy Stewart.
Participants/Performers
Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey.
Description
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.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and sexual content, including partial nudity.
System Details
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, High-Definition.
System Details
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Language
English, dubbed French, dubbed Portuguese, dubbed Spanish or dubbed Thai dialogue, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish or Thai subtitles; closed-captioned.
Local note
BLU-RAY

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Brunetti, D., Spacey, K., De Luca, M., Steinfeld, P., Loeb, A., Luketic, R., Sturgess, J., Bosworth, K., Fishburne, L., III., & Mezrich, B. (2008). 21 ([Blu-ray version.].). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dana. Brunetti et al.. 2008. 21. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dana. Brunetti et al.. 21 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Brunetti, Dana., et al. 21 [Blu-ray version.]., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.

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