Story by Megan Garcia
Staff Writer
“Moneyball” delivers tears, excitement and laughs, deserving praise.
Director Bennett Miller captures the meaning of perseverance through team work and friendship.
Brad Pitt (“The Curios Case of Benjamin Button”) staring as a 44 year old General Manger to a low-budget Oakland Athletics baseball team delivered a brilliant performance along with Jonah Hill (“Superbad”) who plays a 25 year old Yale graduate.
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is a confident General Manager to an awful team. After losing to the New York Yankees in the 2001 American League Division Series and not renewing three-key players in the off-season, it was time to make serious changes with the low-budget he had to work with for the upcoming season.
While trying to make key-trades with different ball clubs, Beane comes across Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), special assistant to the General Manager of the Cleavland Indians.
When Beane buys Brand from the Indians, things begin to start for the Oakland Athletics organization.
The A’s started the 2002 season the opposite of what Beane was hoping for, but gained a new attitude in the middle of the season, and the A’s were on the way to history.
Director Bennett Miller did an amazing job with the graphics of the ballparks along with capturing the emotion of all the actors. He captured the true meaning of baseball.
Based on a true-story, the film seemed more of a movie-documentary of baseball than the typical baseball movies that are just about playing the game. The film shows viewers what it takes for a general manager, a formerly first-round pick, to make a fundamental winning team with uncooperative people.
Pitt shows the performance of his career alongside Hill who proves that he can play more than comedic roles.
This movie should be watched by all baseball fans because of the humor and the true emotions behind the game.
