"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued 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, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out...
Written by matt-282
The "2.0.9" robotics competition shown in the movie is based on the actual "6.270" programming competition at M.I.T.
See more »
Goofs
Errors in geography:
The outside shot of Ben's dorm building is the Towers dorm for Boston University. Ben would not be living there as an MIT student.
See more »
Quotes
Ben Campbell:
[after Jill wakes him up when their plane arrives in Boston]
I seem to be waking up to you a lot. Jill Taylor:
Don't get used to it. See more »