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The film follows Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who uses sabermetrics to build a competitive team with a limited budget. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and received critical acclaim for its acting and screenplay.
Moneyball: Directed by Bennett Miller. With Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
- (471K)
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Bennett Miller
- 2011-09-23
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysi...
- 3 min
- 4.3M
- Rotten Tomatoes Trailers
Frustrated that his baseball team can't afford big-money players, Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane bets on a bold new strategy to change the game. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Bennett Miller
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with a tight budget, Beane must reinvent his team by ...
- (275)
- Bennett Miller
- PG-13
- Brad Pitt
Sep 21, 2011 · What happened between is the stuff of “Moneyball,” a smart, intense and moving film that isn’t so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics. I walked in knowing what the movie was about, but unprepared for its intelligence and depth.
Bennett Miller's adaptation of Michael Lewis' non-fiction best seller Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, a one-time phenom who flamed out in the big leagues and now works as the GM for the Oakland Athletics, a franchise that's about to lose their three best players to free agency.
