‘Moneyball’

Last night I attended the screening of Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin’s Moneyball. The movie takes a deep look at how Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane helped reinvent baseball based on statistics rather than near-superstitious thinking.

While the movie has its lags and lulls, like baseball, I was not disappointed. In fact the movie is more easy going than I was expecting. The pace always the actors, especially great reactor Jonah Hill, and the plot to breathe. Brad Pitt is easygoing and comfortable in the role of Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, and Philip Seymour Hoffman is perfect as the taciturn As manager who stubbornly uses the players he chooses—until Beane just as firmly takes them away from him.

I am not a student of baseball, nor am I even a huge baseball fan, but the movie isn’t really about the love of the game as much as it is about adapting to change, sticking to your guns, and not letting conventional wisdom get the better of you.

There’s no doubt about it, I would definitely recommend seeing Moneyball in theaters when it releases on September 23rd.

Erik