21 (In theaters now)

Take a group of very intelligent students, add in a greedy math professor, throw in some sex, drugs, drink and some cards and you have summed up the movie. As we watch Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) begin to teach a ‘gang’ of students the way to break the bank in Las Vegas, we are thrown into a story about self discovery, the gambling and debauchery seemingly just a catalyst that ignites the passion of a few young men and women.

As we begin, with a young Ben deciding that he’s not going to use his mother’s savings to go to Harvard, and as we watch him take a moral downturn, we begin to wonder about the reality of the plot. Someone told me that the movie was based on reality, but the reality was thinly disguised by Hollywood ‘pazzaz’.. We watch as the gang begins to learn systems using their talents for numbers, some devices and something akin to sign language.

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