- 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. Because the team isn't in a financial position to spend as much as perennial favorites like the Yankees and the Red Sox, Beane realizes he needs to radically change how he evaluates what players can bring to the squad. After he meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an Ivy League economics major working as an executive assistant for scouting on another team, Beane realizes he's found the man who understands how to subvert the system of assessing players that's been in place for nearly a century. However, as the duo begin to acquire players that seem too old, injured, or inept to play major-league baseball, they face stiff resistance from both the A's longtime scouts and the team's manager Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who outright refuses to allow Beane's more-nontraditional acquisitions to play. Moneyball screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Disc #1 -- Moneyball
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Languages
Audio: English
Audio: English Audio Descriptive Service
Audio: French
Audio: Spanish
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Chinese Traditional
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Korean
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Special Features
Blooper - Brad Loses It
Deleted Scenes
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Billy Tells Art: Play Bradford
Tara and Billy Dinner
Peter Offered GM Job
Billy Beane: Re-Inventing the Game
Moneyball: Playing the Game
Previews
Jack and Jill
The Ides of March
Courageous
The Rum Diary
Anonymous
- Chapters
Disc #1 -- Moneyball
1. Chapter 1 [8:23]
2. Chapter 2 [5:07]
3. Chapter 3 [10:01]
4. Chapter 4 [6:00]
5. Chapter 5 [10:13]
6. Chapter 6 [10:04]
7. Chapter 7 [9:05]
8. Chapter 8 [9:07]
9. Chapter 9 [9:22]
10. Chapter 10 [8:47]
11. Chapter 11 [6:12]
12. Chapter 12 [2:07]
13. Chapter 13 [4:19]
14. Chapter 14 [6:35]
15. Chapter 15 [5:45]
16. Chapter 16 [7:19]
- Features
Deleted scenes
Billy Beane: Re-Inventing the Game
Blooper with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill
Moneyball: Playing the game - a complete behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moneyball
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Directors
Bennett Miller
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Producers
Brad Pitt
Michael De Luca
Rachel Horovitz
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Composers (Music Score)
Mychael Danna
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Co-Producers
Alissa Phillips
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Editors
Christopher Tellefsen
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Screen Writers
Aaron Sorkin
Steven Zaillian
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Set Designers
Greg Hooper
Others
Additional Editing - Hank Corwin
Additional Editing - Conor O'Neill
Additional Editing - Logan Hefflefinger
Animator - Rhythm & Hues Studios
Art Director - Brad Ricker
Assistant Editor - Bart Rachmil
Book Author - Michael Lewis
Casting - Francine Maisler
Cinematographer - Wally Pfister
Composer (Music Score) - Mychael Danna
Costume Designer - Kasia Walicka Maimone
Costumes Supervisor - Mark A. Peterson
Department Head Hair - Katherine Gordon
Department Head Makeup - Francisco X. Perez
Executive Producer - Andrew S. Karsch
Executive Producer - Scott Rudin
Executive Producer - Sidney Kimmel
Executive Producer - Mark Bakshi
First Assistant Director - Scott Robertson
First Assistant Editor - Debra L. Tennant
Key Costumer - Edward T. Hanley
Key Costumer - Garet Reilly Batchelor
Key Hairstylist - Yvette Stone
Key Make-up - Dennis Liddiard
Location Manager - S. Todd Christensen
Makeup - Jean A. Black
Music Editor - Thomas Milano
Music Editor - Kevin Crehan
Production Coordinator - Sharon Lopez
Production Designer - Jess Gonchor
Production Supervisor - Jason Tamez
Properties Master - Maureen Farley
Re-Recording Mixer - Ron Bochar
Re-Recording Mixer - David Giammarco
Re-Recording Mixer - Deb Adair
Screen Story - Stan Chervin
Script Supervisor - Sharon Reynolds-Enriquez
Second Assistant Director - Jonas Spaccarotelli
Set Decorator - Nancy Haigh
Sound Effects Editor - Charles Maynes
Supervising Sound Editor - Ron Bochar
Unit Production Manager - David Witz
Visual Effects - Rhythm & Hues Studios
Visual Effects Editor - Michael Backauskas
Visual Effects Producer - Gary Nolin
Visual Effects Producer - David Robinson
Visual Effects Supervisor - Edwin Rivera
If nothing else,
Bennett Miller's adaptation of
Michael Lewis' nonfiction best-seller Moneyball pulls off the nifty trick of making it just as enthralling to watch people talk about baseball as it is to watch them play the game.
The movie 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. Because the team isn't in a financial position to spend as much as perennial favorites like the Yankees and the Red Sox,
Beane realizes he needs to radically change how he evaluates what players can bring to the squad. After he meets Peter Brand (
Jonah Hill), an Ivy League economics major working as an executive assistant for scouting on another team,
Beane realizes he's found the man who understands how to subvert the system of assessing players that's been in place for nearly a century. However, as the duo begin to acquire players that seem too old, injured, or inept to play major-league baseball, they face stiff resistance from both the A's longtime scouts and the team's manager
Art Howe (
Philip Seymour Hoffman), who outright refuses to allow
Beane's more-nontraditional acquisitions to play.
Working from a first-rate script credited to Oscar-winning screenwriters
Steven Zaillian and
Aaron Sorkin,
Miller's sophomore feature proves that his debut,
Capote, was not a fluke when it comes to eliciting great performances from actors.
Pitt uses all his movie-star charm as
Beane: The character needs charisma to convince his team and his underlings to join him on this unconventional path, and charisma is something
Pitt brings in spades.
Hill gets big laughs playing a brainy nerd who knows he's right, but still can't believe anyone is listening to him. For an actor who gained fame as a loudmouthed extrovert in
Superbad,
Hill has been consistently proving (in movies like
Cyrus and
Get Him to the Greek) he's much more than that -- he's got more comedic range than just about any actor out there, and
Moneyball showcases his ability to underplay. It's easy enough to laugh at the physical incongruity of
Pitt and
Hill simply standing side by side, but the film's biggest chuckles come from their verbal interplay.
Like many excellent movies,
Moneyball not only has good performances, but it teaches the viewer something -- in this case, the new school of baseball statistics known as sabermetrics. And the film is savvy enough to make these explanations as entertaining as possible; we learn as
Beane does why it's just as valuable for a batter to get a walk as it is for him to get a hit, and having him explain it to the old-school scouts over and over works both as comedy and as a way for audiences to catch up with his way of thinking.
Since the film's main character is trying to go against convention, it's fitting that the movie's story must do the same. The climax of the movie isn't about whether or not the team wins the big game, but whether
Beane will leave Oakland to take the GM job with the Red Sox. Admittedly, that kind of drama doesn't lend itself to a visceral, fist-pumping conclusion, but
Moneyball is more about the ability to stick by your guns than it is about triumphing in the face of adversity. Integrity means more to
Beane than success, but not by much. The drama comes when those two goals seem to be in conflict, when
Beane's integrity may cost him not only wins on the field, but a functional working relationship with everyone around him.
As he gets older,
Brad Pitt looks more and more like
Robert Redford, and seeing the two-time People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive in a baseball movie can't help but bring to mind memories of
The Natural. But
Moneyball is as different from
Barry Levinson's fairy tale as it could possibly be. Refusing to see
Moneyball because you don't like baseball is as foolish as refusing to see
The Social Network because you don't use Facebook.
Two features into his directing career,
Bennett Miller has managed to refresh not only the traditional biopic, but the inspirational sports drama as well. If he never loses his uncanny ear for dialogue, odds are good he's on his way to a stellar career.
Moneyball indicates that, unlike his main character here, there seems to be little chance of
Miller flaming out in the cinematic big leagues. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Adapted Screenplay - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Adapted Screenplay - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 2011
- Jonah Hill : Best Supporting Actor - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor in a Drama - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - National Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - New York Film Critics Circle, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Screenplay - National Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Adapted Screenplay - Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Screenplay - National Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Jonah Hill : Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2011
- Stan Chervin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Broadcast Film Critics Association, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Picture - Producers Guild of America, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - Screen Actors Guild, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Michael de Luca : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Michael de Luca : Best Picture - Producers Guild of America, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Screenplay - New York Film Critics Circle, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Writers Guild of America, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Christopher Tellefsen : Best Editing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Adapted Screenplay - Writers Guild of America, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Screenplay - New York Film Critics Circle, 2011
- Ron Bochar : Best Sound Mixing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Ed Novick : Best Sound Mixing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Rachel Horovitz : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Rachel Horovitz : Best Picture - Producers Guild of America, 2011
- Jonah Hill : Best Supporting Actor - Screen Actors Guild, 2011
- Stan Chervin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Writers Guild of America, 2011
- Stan Chervin : Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - Boston Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Brad Pitt : Best Actor - Detroit Film Critics Society, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Screenplay - Detroit Film Critics Society, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Screenplay - Boston Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Aaron Sorkin : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2011
- Christopher Tellefsen : Best Edited Feature - Drama - American Cinema Editors Guild, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Screenplay - Boston Society of Film Critics, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Screenplay - Detroit Film Critics Society, 2011
- Steven Zaillian : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2011
- David Giammarco : Best Sound Mixing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Jonah Hill : Best Supporting Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
- Deb Adair : Best Sound Mixing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 2011
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