Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymor Hoffman
Director: Bennett Miller
When movies are nominated for several Oscars, or when there is a lot of Oscar hype surrounding a particular movie, it generally peaks interest. Some movies, upon watching, scream Oscar, others leave you wondering what drugs the academy are on and where you can obtain said drugs.
Movies that have not only screamed Oscar but have been very worthy of their Oscar nods recently include The Kings Speech and The Help, but is Moneyball worth the hype?
In a word.............maybe?
Based on the true story of the numbers game that changed the way baseball teams were run, Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, ex-player and now General Manager of the Oakland A's. Billy is sick to death of not having the enormous budget that other teams have, and sick of seeing his best players being poached by the teams that can afford them, so he decides to do something about it.
He poaches an Economics major by the name of Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), from another team and enlists his expertise in putting a new team together, but not just any team, one based on statistics not skills.
There are parts of the movie that were boring, the personal life of Billy Beane, his ex -wife (Robyn Wright) and his 12 year old daughter, but all in all, if you love baseball and don't mind not seeing much of the actual sport, this is an interesting movie.
Brad Pitt is aging well and Jonah Hill put forward a worthy performance, but really, nothing spectacular.
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