The Last Casino

The Last Casino
Directed byPierre Gill
Written bySteven Westren
Produced byGreg Dummett
Lorraine Richard
Madeleine Henri
StarringCharles Martin Smith
Katharine Isabelle
Kris Lemche
Julian Richings
Albert Chung
CinematographyBernard Couture
Edited bySylvain Lebel
Music byMartin Roy
Production
company
Distributed byThe Movie Network
Release date
  • 26 June 2004 (2004-06-26)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French
Cantonese

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]

  1. ^ Canadian Feature Film Database. (2015). "The Last Casino", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference IMDb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ The MIT Blackjack Team. (2018). "The Last Casino", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Ball, Janet. (2014). "How a team of students beat the casinos", Retrieved on April 2, 2018.

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