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“Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at M.I.T. (Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las Vegas casinos. Both single- and two-disc editions include a commentary by Luketic and producers Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca and three documentaries (21 - The Advantage Player, Basic Strategy: A Complete Film Journal and Money Plays: A Tour of the Good Life). The two-disc edition adds a bonus digital copy of the movie.
Four Jazz Favorites
Bird, Pete Kelly's Blues, Blues in the Night, Round Midnight
Warner Home Video releases these jazz-oriented films: Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor; Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb ("Dragnet") as a Kansas City coronet player who fights the mob; Blues in the Night (1941) features a Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer score and more drama about musicians and mobsters, and Round Midnight (1986), French director Bertrand Tavernier's love letter to '50s jazz, starring real-life tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
“Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at M.I.T. (Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las Vegas casinos. Both single- and two-disc editions include a commentary by Luketic and producers Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca and three documentaries (21 - The Advantage Player, Basic Strategy: A Complete Film Journal and Money Plays: A Tour of the Good Life). The two-disc edition adds a bonus digital copy of the movie.
Four Jazz Favorites
Bird, Pete Kelly's Blues, Blues in the Night, Round Midnight
Warner Home Video releases these jazz-oriented films: Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor; Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb ("Dragnet") as a Kansas City coronet player who fights the mob; Blues in the Night (1941) features a Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer score and more drama about musicians and mobsters, and Round Midnight (1986), French director Bertrand Tavernier's love letter to '50s jazz, starring real-life tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
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