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| Director: Bennett Miller
Actors: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Pratt
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $30.99
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Sales Rank: 480
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD39225D
UPC: 043396392250
EAN: 0043396392250
ASIN: B0060ZJ7BC
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2011
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Please Note: Ships fast. Guaranteed to work. May have scuffs. Disc comes in non-original jewel case. Artwork is not included.
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Product Description
The true story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's attempt to field a successful baseball team after a 2001 playoff loss to the Yankees is chronicled in this sports drama, based on the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game." With a limited budget, Beane (Brad Pitt) enlists the aid of an economics whiz (Jonah Hill) with a mathematical approach to scouting players, encountering opposition from the A's' more traditional manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Robin Wright also stars. 133 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish; deleted scenes; featurettes.
Amazon.com
It's amazing that Moneyball makes baseball statistics seem fascinating--but that's because it's not really a movie about numbers, and it's not really a movie about baseball, either. It's about what drives people to take risks--in this instance, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, who's just had his best players poached by teams that can afford to pay a lot more. Fed up with how money twists the game, he listens to Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), who persuades him that certain players are being undervalued for trivial reasons--that statistics reveal hidden strengths that could, when used in the right combinations, produce a winning season. Beane takes Brand's advice, then has to fight everyone else around him to follow it through. Moneyball skillfully takes the audience into Beane's psyche. Pitt is in excellent form; it's an understated but magnetic performance, the kind that rarely wins awards but should. Pitt has the physical presence of a former athlete and vividly expresses the mind of a man who's never achieved success but isn't ready to give up. Director Bennett Miller (Capote) shapes the supporting cast (Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and others less recognizable but just as solid) as carefully as Beane shapes his team. Miller has a few flashy (and highly effective) moments of sound manipulation and editing, but Moneyball is carried by its superb performances. --Bret Fetzer
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