Based on the true story of six M.I.T. students, "21" is a movie about a group of M.I.T. students who, under the tutelage of one of their professors... ( 21 Movie Review )
The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, a loser who has made his career out of his contagious bad luck. The Cooler plies his trade, working on the floor of Las Vegas. ( The Cooler 2003 )
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21 is the story of Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a promising M.I.T. student who needs money to get into Harvard Medical School. To make ends meet (and against his better judgement) he joins a group of his fellow students, Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), Kianna (Liza Lapira), Choi (Aaron Yoo) and Fisher (Jacob Pitts) to go [...]
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, a loser who has made his career out of his contagious bad luck. The Cooler plies his trade, working on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino, an old-school “gambler’s casino,” a dinosaur in the shadow of the new Strip and its theme-park attractions.
In this purgatory of bright lights [...]
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Mike Hodges’ Croupier takes us behind the scenes of the casino and into the world of professional gambling.
Like the recent film Rounders, we are guided through this world by the narration of a young man caught up in circumstances greater than himself. Hodges’ film is smarter and sexier, however, and tells the story not of [...]
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Daniel Craig is a fantastic Bond, and all those wingers’ and nay-sayers out there in the blogosphere should hang their heads in shame. ( The Casino Royal )
Rounders, set in the underground poker clubs of New York and the actor's first starring role since Will Hunting, suggests that Damon is a winner. ( Rounders 1998 )
