{"product_id":"moneyball-brad-pitt-dvd-2011-region-2-new-sealed","title":"Moneyball - Brad Pitt [DVD] [2011] [Region 2] - New Sealed","description":"Product Description      Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour\nHoffman star in this baseball drama co-written by 'The Social\nNetwork' (2010) screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Based on real events\nin 2002, the film follows the unconventional tactics employed by\nBilly Beane (Pitt), general manager of the cash-strapped Oakland\nAthletics baseball team, to rebuild his club after losing a few\nkey players to the Major League. Beane enlists the services of\nYale economics graduate Peter Brand (Hill) to devise an\nunorthodox player selection system based on a sophisticated\nstatistical analysis of each player's skills. As Billy and Peter\nstart to build their team based on computer-generated data rather\nthan the traditional scouting methods, they meet with resistance\nfrom old hands such as team manager Art Howe (Hoffman). But when\nthe club begins a winning streak with its roster of inexpensive\n'wild card' players, the naysayers are forced to admit that the\nscheme appears to be working. Special - Deleted Scenes -\nBilly Beane: Re-Inventing the Game (featurette) - Blooper with\nBrad Pitt and Jonah Hill - Moneyball: Playing the Game – a\ncomplete behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Moneyball”\nAmazon.co.uk Review      It's amazing that Moneyball makes\nbaseball statistics seem fascinating--but that's because it's not\nreally a movie about numbers, and it's not really a movie about\nbaseball, either. It's about what drives people to take risks--in\nthis instance, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), general manager\nof the Oakland A's, who's just had his best players poached by\nteams that can afford to pay a lot more. Fed up with how money\ntwists the game, he listens to Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), who\npersuades him that certain players are being undervalued for\ntrivial reasons--that statistics reveal hidden strengths that\ncould, when used in the right combinations, produce a winning\nseason. Beane takes Brand's advice, then has to fight everyone\nelse around him to follow it through. Moneyball skillfully takes\nthe audience into Beane's psyche. Pitt is in excellent form; it's\nan understated but magnetic performance, the kind that rarely\nwins awards but should. Pitt has the physical presence of a\nformer athlete and vividly expresses the mind of a man who's\nnever achieved success but isn't ready to give up. Director\nBennett Miller (Capote) shapes the supporting cast (Hill, Philip\nSeymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and others less recognisable but\njust as solid) as carefully as Beane shapes his team. Miller has\na few flashy (and highly effective) moments of sound manipulation\nand editing, but Moneyball is carried by its superb performances.\n--Bret Fetzer\n","brand":"Sony Pictures Home Ent.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42570505912538,"sku":"S31586880","price":5.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/7339\/7443\/products\/51Mp6Y-oUSL._AC_US1500.jpg?v=1648692783","url":"https:\/\/atticdiscoveryshop.co.uk\/products\/moneyball-brad-pitt-dvd-2011-region-2-new-sealed","provider":"Attic Discovery Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}