21, Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media, a Trigger Street/Michael De Luca production, a film by Robert Luketic ; produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb ; directed by Robert Luketic
Type
Label
21, Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media, a Trigger Street/Michael De Luca production, a film by Robert Luketic ; produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb ; directed by Robert Luketic
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and sexual content, including partial nudity
Main title
21
Oclc number
226300745
Responsibility statement
Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media, a Trigger Street/Michael De Luca production, a film by Robert Luketic ; produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb ; directed by Robert Luketic
Runtime
123
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. 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. Intriged 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
general
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Twenty-one
Classification
Contributor
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Loeb, Allan
- Trigger Street Productions
- De Luca, Michael, 1965-
- Bosworth, Kate, 1983-
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Luketic, Robert, 1973-
- Steinfeld, Peter
- Michael De Luca Productions (Firm)
- Relative Media (Firm)
- Mezrich, Ben
- Spacey, Kevin
- Columbia Pictures
- Sturgess, Jim
- Brunetti, Dana
Genre
Subject
- College students + Conduct of life -- Drama
- College teachers -- Massachusetts -- Drama
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Drama
- Casinos -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Drama
- Blackjack (Game) -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Card counting -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Drama
- Action and adventure films
Content
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor15
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Loeb, Allan
- Trigger Street Productions
- De Luca, Michael, 1965-
- Bosworth, Kate, 1983-
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Luketic, Robert, 1973-
- Steinfeld, Peter
- Michael De Luca Productions (Firm)
- Relative Media (Firm)
- Mezrich, Ben
- Spacey, Kevin
- Columbia Pictures
- Sturgess, Jim
- Brunetti, Dana
- Genre4
- Subject11
- College students + Conduct of life -- Drama
- College teachers -- Massachusetts -- Drama
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Drama
- Casinos -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Drama
- Blackjack (Game) -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Card counting -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Drama
- Action and adventure films
- Content1
- Mapped to1