Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians

Name: Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-06-11
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Ben Crawford, Brad Currah, David Drury

2011
PG
1h 32m

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6.7/10

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Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (2011)

Holy Rollers follows the rise of the Churchteam, arguably the largest and most well funded blackjack team in America. In their short existence, they have taken millions from casinos. But since every team member is a Christian and some are pastors, there i

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Holy Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from ca... Read allHoly Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes ... Read allHoly Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling?

Director
- Bryan Storkel
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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

637

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Director
- Bryan Storkel
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins total

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10teenshelter-1

Amazing

This movie blew my mind. The distinction between true Christianity and religion is such a crazy line and this documentary attempts to look at one of those edges. There's tons of emotional ups and downs. I've seriously watched this movie more than five times it's so amazing. It's pretty accurate with a little bit of movie making liberty taken as to the order of the clips and the over-arching narrative. Personally I wish there was less drama surrounding a plot line and just more of the everyday issues that these people dealt with because some of them seem cool but some of them seem like legit wackos...not going to mention any names ;)

Hope you enjoy it and regardless of your opinion of blackjack, card-counting, or faith I hope it makes you ask some questions

5ChrisMoore-2315

Some What Disappointing.

The movie starts with the premise that the Christians take down the casinos for big bucks. But instead of raking in the dough they seem more often than not being asked to leave the premises and/or losing rather than winning at the tables. Leaders seem to not always be able effectively manage the team and some are not up to the skills needed to be a successful card-counter. These group dynamics get tedious. Card-counting is presented at the being easy at the beginning, but then many they take into the group struggle and with some even being suspected of stealing (no spoiler but one in a very crazy way). To me the dichotomy between adherence to Fundamentalist Christianity and gambling is not resolved, as hard as members of the team try to.