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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.
Oakland Athletics' General Manager Billy Beane struggles to build a competitive team on a severely limited budget. Facing the loss of his star players to richer franchises, Beane teams up with a young, unconventional statistician named Peter Brand to assemble a team using sabermetrics, a method of evaluating baseball players based on objective statistical analysis rather than traditional scouting methods.
Moneyball was met with widespread critical acclaim, praised for its intelligent screenplay, strong performances, and innovative approach to sports filmmaking. Critics lauded Brad Pitt's portrayal of Billy Beane and the film's ability to make complex statistical concepts engaging for a general audience, transforming a story about baseball analytics into a compelling human drama.
Engaging and intelligent exploration of baseball analytics.
Brad Pitt delivers a superb performance.
Successfully makes a complex subject accessible and compelling.
Google audience: Audiences praised the film's smart storytelling, engaging performances, and its ability to make the often-dry subject of baseball statistics exciting. Many found it to be an inspiring underdog story that transcends the sport itself.
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Brad Pitt), and Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill). It also received nominations for Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.
The film is based on the true story of Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane and his attempt to build a winning team with a low budget using sabermetrics, as chronicled in Michael Lewis's 2003 book of the same name. Many actual baseball players from the 2002 Oakland A's team made cameo appearances.
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**Moneyball hits a home run with remarkable directing and performances and an intriguing true story that drastically changed everything for the sport of baseball.** Moneyball is as brilliant and interesting as a sports movie gets. Bennet...
**A good behind-the-scenes movie about baseball.** In general, sports-themed movies are not strictly my piece of cake, I prefer to see other things. But this film already had an interesting list of award nominations, which includes six O...
BORING watch, won't watch again, and do not recommend unless you're both a baseball and a statistics or financial business fan. With Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Brad Pitt, and Philip Seymore Hoffman, I thought it would at least be interesti...
Sporting Economics I have no affinity to Baseball as a sport, I'm British you see. I tried to get in to it when British cable networks began showing it, but it never grabbed me. My only contribution to any conversation about the sport is...
A movie done to the size and skills of Brad Pitt. The story is interesting enough and is well driven and directed. Hill does a good job, mostly because nobody had seen him doing a serious role before.