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| The Last Casino | |
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| Written by | Steven Westren |
| Directed by | Pierre Gill |
| Starring | Charles Martin Smith Katharine Isabelle Kris Lemche Julian Richings Albert Chung |
| Music by | Martin Roy |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original languages | English French Cantonese |
| Production | |
| Producers | Greg Dummett Lorraine Richard Madeleine Henri |
| Cinematography | Bernard Couture |
| Editor | Sylvain Lebel |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Production company | Astral Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | The Movie Network |
| Release | 26 June 2004 |
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The Last Casino (also known by its French title, La Mise Finale) is a 2004 English-French-Cantonese-language Canadian drama film about a card counting scheme.[1] The film was produced by Greg Dummett, Lorraine Richard and Madeleine Henri, directed by Pierre Gill and written by Steven Westren. The Last Casino stars Charles Martin Smith as Barnes, Katharine Isabelle as Elyse, Kris Lemche as Scott, Julian Richings as Orr and Albert Chung as George.[2]
The Last Casino draws heavily from the story of the MIT Blackjack Team.[3] The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were trained by Bill Kaplan.[4] Kaplan delayed his entrance to Harvard University because he believed he could create a mathematics model that would assist him in being successful at blackjack.[4] In 1977, Kaplan turned $1000 into $35000 within a nine-month period.[4]
- ^ Canadian Feature Film Database. (2015). "The Last Casino", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.
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IMDbwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ The MIT Blackjack Team. (2018). "The Last Casino", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.
- ^ a b c Ball, Janet. (2014). "How a team of students beat the casinos", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.