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Inspired by the true story of five students who changed the game forever.

Loosely based on a true story, this is the tale of how a group of smart MIT students, coached by a statistics lecturer, took on and beat the casinos as blackjack. They used a technique known as ''card counting'', which, while not illegal, is enough to get you thrown out of a casino when detected. A sideline story revolves around one of the smartest guys, and his romance with the hottest babe on campus, who also happened to be on the card-counting team.

120 minutes, No persons under 13 (Violence)
Drama.

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Credits
Cast	Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Laurence Fishburne
Director	Robert Luketic
Screenplay	Peter Steinfeld, Allan Loeb, from the book by Ben Mezrich
Music	David Sardy
Cinematography	Russell Carpenter
Editing	Elliot Graham
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Michael De Luca Productions, Relativity Media, Trigger Street Productions
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Isolated and discreet
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Infrequent and fairly strong
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	Mature theme that is clearly and positively resolved.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	10
Cape TimesMichael Phillips	5
iAfrica.comNils van der Linden	10
The CitizenAnnette Bayne	14
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	10
24.comMegan Kakora	10
International Media
BBC (UK)Stella Papamichael	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	10
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	15
ScreenIt (USA)	10
Metacritic.com29 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.com124 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	6
Internet (IMDB)10829 Netizens	14

Average .. 51%	10

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