Moneyball

"What are you really worth?"

2011 2h 14m EN

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7.3

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94%

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7.6

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★7.3TMDB · 6,043🍅94%Rotten Tomatoes●87Metacritic★7.6IMDB · 504,163

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Synopsis

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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.

“What are you really worth?”

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Cast

Brad Pitt
Billy Beane
Jonah Hill
Peter Brand
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Art Howe
Robin Wright
Sharon
Chris Pratt
Scott Hatteberg
Stephen Bishop
David Justice
Reed Diamond
Mark Shapiro
Brent Jennings
Ron Washington

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Bennett Miller
Writers: Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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Released 15 years ago.

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3 / 8

CAST

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228+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Bennett Miller, shot by Wally Pfister. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mychael Danna. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Christopher Tellefsen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "What are you really worth?".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Bennett Miller directs. Wally Pfister behind the camera. Mychael Danna scores. Christopher Tellefsen cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released 15 years ago.
3228+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Bennett Miller, shot by Wally Pfister. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Mychael Danna. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Christopher Tellefsen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "What are you really worth?".
9IMDB entry: tt1210166 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 14 themes, including "underdog", "california", "sports", "baseball".

The technical file

Cinematography: Wally Pfister
Original score: Mychael Danna
Editing: Christopher Tellefsen
Production design: Jess Gonchor
Costume design: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Makeup / hair: Francisco X. Pérez
Sound: David Giammarco
Stunt coordinator: Darrin Prescott
Runtime: 134 min · 2h 14m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $110,206,216
Return: 220% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Moneyball (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 87/100
IMDB rating: 7.6/10 · 504,163 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 6 Oscars. 29 wins & 82 nominations total

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Andres Gomez2015-12-29
★ 6/10
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.
John Chard2018-12-03
★ 9/10
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 that I support The Cleveland Indians because of the film Major League, a film that continues to make me laugh to this day. I was intrigued by Moneyball, synopsis tantalisingly offering up a sports success story based on an improbable blend of maths (something I hate with a passion), guile and perceived misfits as a team. Sure enough, after viewing Moneyball it has landed joyously onto a personal favourites list. Unsurprisingly, when digging into the actual facts of the Oakland Athletics 2002 season at the core of the story, I found truths stretched, some character portrayals toyed with, and omissions to round out a better story. But crucially, the key element here is the moulding of a team for what in Baseball parlance is financial peanuts. This makes their 20 game wining run as being an outstanding achievement. The mathematical aspects of the story are easily explained via the interactions of General Manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his economics right hand man Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). Baseball operations behind the scenes are given fascinating clarity via the tremendous screenplay (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin). And ultimately the blend of on field action, family relationships and team assembling flows beautifully as one. In turn punch the air brilliant with heart tugging worth, and brainy into the bargain, Moneyball most certainly a film non Baseball fans can watch and maybe love for bringing something new to the sports movie table. 9/10
Kamurai2020-11-06
★ 2/10
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 interesting if not entertaining. As the movie begins and it is clearly about Baseball, I at least hoped it would be done in a fun entertaining way. I guess Jonah Hill got tired of being stereo-typed as "fun". I know 1 guy that would probably get great pleasure out of this movie as a fan of baseball statistics, and if I didn't know about that 1 guy, I wouldn't have any clue why this movie was made. I can't express this enough: this movie is about cold hard numbers and how they can be manipulated to impact real people in the world of baseball.