21 Columbia Pictures ; Relativity Media ; Trigger Street ; Michael De Luca Productions ; produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb ; directed by Robert Luketic.

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FilmPublisher number: 26718 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Summary language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]Edition: Widescreen (2.35:1)Description: 1 DVD (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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video

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videodisc

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Rated PG-13
Parental advisory
General

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1435924398 (container)
9781435924390

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Twenty-one

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21 (Motion picture : 2008)

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Director of photography, Russell Carpenter ; editor, Elliot Graham ; music, David Sardy ; costume designer, Luca Mosca ; production designer, Missy Stewart.

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey.Summary: 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. Then 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; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using the skills of code talk and hand signals, Ben makes hundreds of thousands of dollars winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben wants to make only enough money for his tuition and then to back out of the group. 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 against Micky which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
DVD	John Tomay Memorial Library	DVDFIC	DVD FIC 21 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	31030100218593

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.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Director of photography, Russell Carpenter ; editor, Elliot Graham ; music, David Sardy ; costume designer, Luca Mosca ; production designer, Missy Stewart.

Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey.

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. Then 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; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using the skills of code talk and hand signals, Ben makes hundreds of thousands of dollars winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben wants to make only enough money for his tuition and then to back out of the group. 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 against Micky which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and sexual content, including partial nudity.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Soundtrack in English, French or Spanish, subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned.

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