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Amazon.co.uk Review
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when he is forced to rebuild his small-market team, on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beane - with the help of a young, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist (Jonah Hill) - develops a roster of misfits and changes the way the game is played forever.
Nominated for Six Academy Awards® including Best Picture!
Nominated for 3 Orange British Academy Film Awards:
Leading Actor – Brad Pitt
Supporting Actor – Jonah Hill
Adapted Screenplay – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
Moneyball also features an all-star line-up of filmmakers. Academy Award® winners Steven Zaillian (1993, Best Adapted Screenplay, Schindler's List) and Aaron Sorkin (2010, Best Adapted Screenplay, The Social Network) wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by Academy Award® nominee Bennett Miller (2005, Best Director, Capote), produced by Michael DeLuca (The Social Network), Rachael Horovitz (About Schmidt) and Brad Pitt; and executive produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Karsch (Conviction), Sidney Kimmel (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Mark Bakshi (Rango).
DVD Special Features:
Nominated for Six Academy Awards® including Best Picture!
Nominated for 3 Orange British Academy Film Awards:
Leading Actor – Brad Pitt
Supporting Actor – Jonah Hill
Adapted Screenplay – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
Moneyball also features an all-star line-up of filmmakers. Academy Award® winners Steven Zaillian (1993, Best Adapted Screenplay, Schindler's List) and Aaron Sorkin (2010, Best Adapted Screenplay, The Social Network) wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by Academy Award® nominee Bennett Miller (2005, Best Director, Capote), produced by Michael DeLuca (The Social Network), Rachael Horovitz (About Schmidt) and Brad Pitt; and executive produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Karsch (Conviction), Sidney Kimmel (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Mark Bakshi (Rango).
DVD Special Features:
- Blooper with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill
- Billy Beane: Re-Inventing the Game
- Moneyball: Playing The Game
- Deleted Scenes
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's amazing that Moneyball makes baseball statistics seem fascinating--but that's because it's not really a movie about numbers, and it's not really a movie about baseball, either. It's about what drives people to take risks--in this instance, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, who's just had his best players poached by teams that can afford to pay a lot more. Fed up with how money twists the game, he listens to Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), who persuades him that certain players are being undervalued for trivial reasons--that statistics reveal hidden strengths that could, when used in the right combinations, produce a winning season. Beane takes Brand's advice, then has to fight everyone else around him to follow it through. Moneyball skillfully takes the audience into Beane's psyche. Pitt is in excellent form; it's an understated but magnetic performance, the kind that rarely wins awards but should. Pitt has the physical presence of a former athlete and vividly expresses the mind of a man who's never achieved success but isn't ready to give up. Director Bennett Miller (Capote) shapes the supporting cast (Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and others less recognisable but just as solid) as carefully as Beane shapes his team. Miller has a few flashy (and highly effective) moments of sound manipulation and editing, but Moneyball is carried by its superb performances. --Bret Fetzer
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I had to post this review mainly in response to the only one that gave the film 2 stars.
This is a travesty of a score and with the basis of it seeming to come from one who is much more at home with action movies or cheap comedies.
The film is fantastic with great acting from Pitt and Hill who give very strong performances, Hill's actually fairly surprising as he usually does Kevin Smith style comedies. The script is great and draws a great deal of laughs.
Whilst being a film based on sport there isn't a great deal of sports knowledge required as this is more a film of overcoming adversity and any sequences on the pitch are very short. To get a real idea of this film check out Roger Ebert's review by just searching Roger Ebert review Moneyball in google.
This is a film to see from the script writers of Shindlers List and the Social Network. It is funny, engaging, interesting and heartwarming. You do grow to love several of the characters and become invested in them. One of the films of 2011
This is a travesty of a score and with the basis of it seeming to come from one who is much more at home with action movies or cheap comedies.
The film is fantastic with great acting from Pitt and Hill who give very strong performances, Hill's actually fairly surprising as he usually does Kevin Smith style comedies. The script is great and draws a great deal of laughs.
Whilst being a film based on sport there isn't a great deal of sports knowledge required as this is more a film of overcoming adversity and any sequences on the pitch are very short. To get a real idea of this film check out Roger Ebert's review by just searching Roger Ebert review Moneyball in google.
This is a film to see from the script writers of Shindlers List and the Social Network. It is funny, engaging, interesting and heartwarming. You do grow to love several of the characters and become invested in them. One of the films of 2011
Format:DVD
This film is a sleeper in the UK because most people will write it off as a 'stock' US baseball movie.
That it ain't.
If you want fine acting ( Pitt and Hill), a great script ( Sorkin) and a true story about how one individual challenged the status-quo/flat-earthers and in so doing took his team from under-dogs to game-changers, then you will find it here.
An outstanding find and quality film.
That it ain't.
If you want fine acting ( Pitt and Hill), a great script ( Sorkin) and a true story about how one individual challenged the status-quo/flat-earthers and in so doing took his team from under-dogs to game-changers, then you will find it here.
An outstanding find and quality film.
Format:DVD
'Moneyball' is a superior 'David and Goliath' sports movie.You could say it's a baseball film with most of the baseball taken out.It's a film where character and ideas win out over big set-piece action scenes. It's a film about how manage when the odds are down. Fan's of the noble sport will look in vein for much in the way of fist -pumping celebratory excitement, this film is more about obsession and the price and ultimate futility of success. Expect tension,conflict,soul searching and occasional moments of revelation and joy.The drama comes from the central character,general manager Billy Bean never truly being happy even when results are going his way.His only joy outside of Baseball is his daughter. Sadly his marriage has disintegrated as his immersion in his job became ever more complete.
The film scores heavily in terms of performance (Brad Pitt and Phillip Hoffman are excellent)and atmosphere.
It is quite easy to feel that 'Moneyball' is a convincing portrayal of big-business sport,where results and only results are what really matter.The general theme of the movie is that to beat the big boys, you need to work smarter.In this case Billy Bean uses particular data to analyze player performance rather then traditional Baseball method of simply relying on scouts to identify talent.In this way he can isolate those players who have potential and who are relatively undervalued,meaning that he can put together winning teams with capable rejects on a low budget.The only way that small teams like the Atlanta Braves can win big is by expoliting the power of information. First though of course , you need to know what questions to ask in order to get the answer you are looking for. This is Bean's genius.
It sounds very dry,but not so. The power of this film comes from the great work of Pitt and Hoffman and a strong unshowy supporting cast ,a tight script with an eye for telling detail and atmosphere. It's a thinking person's sports film - yes there are some great game sequences but what keeps the attention is Brad Pitt's all too convincing portrayal of that brooding but inspired builder of teams,Billy Bean. Recommended.
The film scores heavily in terms of performance (Brad Pitt and Phillip Hoffman are excellent)and atmosphere.
It is quite easy to feel that 'Moneyball' is a convincing portrayal of big-business sport,where results and only results are what really matter.The general theme of the movie is that to beat the big boys, you need to work smarter.In this case Billy Bean uses particular data to analyze player performance rather then traditional Baseball method of simply relying on scouts to identify talent.In this way he can isolate those players who have potential and who are relatively undervalued,meaning that he can put together winning teams with capable rejects on a low budget.The only way that small teams like the Atlanta Braves can win big is by expoliting the power of information. First though of course , you need to know what questions to ask in order to get the answer you are looking for. This is Bean's genius.
It sounds very dry,but not so. The power of this film comes from the great work of Pitt and Hoffman and a strong unshowy supporting cast ,a tight script with an eye for telling detail and atmosphere. It's a thinking person's sports film - yes there are some great game sequences but what keeps the attention is Brad Pitt's all too convincing portrayal of that brooding but inspired builder of teams,Billy Bean. Recommended.
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Moneyball (2011)
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WOW !
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It's just not that interesting
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Only for True Sports Movie Fans or Baseball Fiends
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Published 1 month ago by Elk2011
simply spectacular
First of all, you don't need to like or even understand baseball to like this film.
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