Moneyball (2:06) 2011

Do you like movies about underdogs? Do you like movies with a sports theme? Do you like movies about baseball? If you answered yes to any of the three, walk to your local theater. If you answered yes to any two, jog to the theater and if you answered yes to all three, run as fast as you can to the nearest theater! With Brad Pitt in the lead role, it's like putting extra butter on freshly popped popcorn. Pitt is Billy Beane, the real life general manager of the Oakland Athletics. Beane has difficulty signing top rated players due to his small budget of 37 million. Beane hires Peter Brand, an Yale graduate with an economics degree, to help sign underrated players for a song. The young team struggles to win games and Beane worries about retaining his job. As the season progresses, the team gels and goes on a record breaking winning streak. Will this be enough to take the team to the World Series? I recommend this movie for several reasons, the first being that this film is based on real events. The second is the highly rated cast of Pitt, Hill and Hoffman. The third reason is that I do strongly agree with Beane's basic premise, baseball is an unfair game. Rich teams get the talented players that poor teams don't have a chance of signing. Play ball!