Synopsis
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
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Cast
- Brad PittBilly Beane
- Jonah HillPeter Brand
- Philip Seymour HoffmanArt Howe
- Robin WrightSharon
- Chris PrattScott Hatteberg
- Stephen BishopDavid Justice
- Reed DiamondMark Shapiro
- Brent JenningsRon Washington
- Ken MedlockGrady Fuson
- Tammy BlanchardElizabeth Hatteberg
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
While a hopelessly awkward-looking Hill provides fish-out-of-water laughs, Pitt gives a genuinely soul-searching performance. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
The supersmart and rousing Moneyball, which may be the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham," is also about talk, but in a coolly heady and original inside-the-front-office way. - 90
Boxoffice Magazine
The surprisingly effective Moneyball has a smart script, solid direction and great performances. - 90
Village Voice
It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great. - 88
Orlando Sentinel
Moneyball is a thinking person's baseball movie, and a baseball fan's thinking movie. - 88
Observer
This is a subtle, elegant and altogether triumphant film about a subject I thought I was tired of, told with an artistry and freshness that is positively thrilling. - 83
IndieWire
Director Bennett Miller has produced a warm and generally agreeable character study about the pratfalls of athletic institutions and the willingness to think outside the box. - 80
Time Out
Best of all, filmmaker Bennett Miller (Capote) uses this brainiac sports movie to remind viewers that money is neither the measure of a man nor the ultimate assessment of quality; it's a myopic metric based on past accomplishments rather than future potential. After all, success isn't always about the home runs so much as just getting on base - again, and again, and again.
