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Box office. $159.8 million. 21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. 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. IMDb offers a brief summary of the film: "21 is about six MIT ...
ISBN. 1-4176-6563-7. Followed by. Busting Vegas. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a 2003 book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team. Though the book is classified as non-fiction, The Boston Globe alleges that the book contains ...
The 2004 film The Last Casino is loosely based on this premise and features three students and a professor counting cards in Ontario and Quebec. [10] The 2008 film 21, inspired by Bringing Down the House and produced by and starring Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess, was released on March 28, 2008, by Columbia Pictures.
Ben Mezrich (/ ˈmɛzrɪk / MEZ-rik; [2] born February 7, 1969) is an American author. He has written well-known non-fiction books, including The Accidental Billionaires and The Antisocial Network, which have been turned into the films The Social Network and Dumb Money, respectively. Some of his books have been written under the pen-name Holden ...
Sylvia Nasar said that the filmmakers "invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash's story". [21] Nash spent his years between Princeton and MIT as a consultant for the RAND Corporation in California, but in the film he is portrayed as having worked for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon ...
Yes, “Sight” is told over the course of five decades, from a 6-year-old Wang (Zhang) seeing his doctor father, Dr. Zhensheng Wang, help a family friend who was badly hurt and blinded in the ...
The Shadow in My Eye (Danish: Skyggen i mit øje), also known as The Bombardment, is a 2021 Danish war drama film written and directed by Ole Bornedal.The film deals with, among other things, Operation Carthage carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War, where one of the planes crashed near Institut Jeanne d'Arc, causing the school to be ...
Language. English. Budget. $10 million [2] Box office. $225.9 million [3] Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Robin Williams, Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver. The film tells the story of janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius ...