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2008 • 122 minutes

About this movie

Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor (Kevin Spacey) and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now, his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control. © 2008 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and GH Three LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

For anybody who plays the game and understands the fundamentals, this is a must watch movie. So many of the new breed arrive at the tables these days "blowing" about their counting ability, and then you watch them lose their stack as they are exposed as complete idiots. They need to watch this movie twice a day for a year.

Really enjoyed this movie.

Lame.