A brilliant student hopes to study medicine, but has no way of raising the money he needs to enrol at college. Salvation comes in the shape of a shady professor who recognises his talents and encourages him to put his mathematical skills to money-spinning use by finding a foolproof method to count cards and fleece casinos. Drama, with Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth and Laurence Fishburne.

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.