Based on the best seller Bringing Down the House and inspired by the true story, 21 stars Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey in a slick, sexy thriller that's winning entertainment. Looking for a way to pay for his college tuition, Ben Campbell finds himself quietly recruited in a daring plot to use brains to beat the odds at Las Vegas's gambling tables. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and five fellow students succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. But now, the challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos...before it all spirals out of control.