Breaking Vegas
★ 6.4 · 2004 · 75m · Documentary
Documentary tracing the attempts of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institue students to become rich playing blackjack at casinos throughout the United States and the attempts of the casinos' management to thwart them.
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