Based on the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics, a professional baseball team that has found itself on the bottom of the barrel in the MLB. With approximately 41 million dollars in salary the Oakland Athletics produced a team of no names based on statistics that have been overlooked by many scouts. Traditional scouting methods look more at RBI's and batting average, but what manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) looked at was on base percentage and slugging percentage. After years of being incapable to compete with powerhouses such as the New York Yankees, who spent 125 million dollars in salaries that year, the front office finally found a way to push their team into the post season. Facing a lot of uncertainty, Billy Beane and his crew of managers found a way to change baseball forever.
This movie is based on the novel by Michael Lewis that was published in 2003 and is due to premiere in the U.S. on September 23rd. In the novel Lewis talks about the lives of many professional baseball players, owners, coaches, and management. Most of the novel describes the life of Billy Beane and his unorthodox techniques in scouting. A man that is very opinionated and raises a lot of discussion in the world of baseball, both as a business and as a statistical evaluation.
Actors that will be starring in this movie will include Brad Pitt (Beane), Jonah Hill (Peter Brand), Robin Wright (Sharon), Chris Pratt (Scott Hatteberg), and Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Art Howe).
This movie should get a rise come its premiere weekend. Us Americans love our game of baseball, almost as much as we love our underdog success story. And with Pitt and Hill at the realm, this movie will make my list of movies to see this fall.
Grade Prediction: B+ (87%)
Rating: Not Rated
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