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Katharine Meredith
HUM205 - Scottsdale Community College
    April 28, 2008
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My first viewing of the movie 21 was on Sunday, April 20 at 4:35pm at Harkins Tempe Marketplace.   Due to job obligations with my companies quarter end, I was unable to view the movie again until Saturday morning, April 26 at 10:30am at Harkins Tempe Marketplace.   The first viewing had an audience of approximately 125 people of various ages.   Due to the early hour of my second viewing there were only 10 people all over the age of approximately 40.
When this movie was released I believe it did hit number one.   I believe it already has made money in the U.S.   It is in the process of being released to other countries and will be very well received and make plenty of money to recoup what Sony spent to make this movie.   This movie falls into the genre of drama.
Storyline
The movie is based on a true story of Jeffrey Ma and a group of M.I.T. students that take Las Vegas casinos for millions using a high/low blackjack card counting system.   The movie centers mostly on the main character Ben Campbell.   Ben is a shy, brilliant student at M.I.T. particularly in math.   Ben has aspirations to go to Harvard medical school and in search of finding the $300k in funds for Harvard he is recruited into a group that turns the odds at playing blackjack in their favor.   The group is lead by an unorthodox math professor Micky
Rosa.   The team has an intricate system of signals they use with the high/low card counting system allowing the team to beat the casinos.   (Movietickets.com, 2008)
Script
The script is based on a true story of Jeffrey Ma and a group of six M.I.T. students that take Las Vegas casinos for millions using a high/low blackjack card counting system.   The movie gives credit to Jeffrey Ma and the book 21: Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. (Mezrich, 2002)  
The screenplay credit goes to Peter Steinfield and Allan Loeb.   Peter has brought us screenplays:   Drowning Mona and...