Moneyball

Slow pacing detracts from this Oscar-nominated, baseball lover's, factually based film in which budget-strapped Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who is divorced from his wife (Robin Wright) and tries to stay connected to his guitar-playing daughter (Kerris Dorsey), decides to experiment with a new method designed by a Yale-educated economics major (Jonah Hill) in 2001 to draft baseball players (Chris Pratt, Steven Bishop, Casey Bond, et al) to replace three free agents (Nick Porrazzo, et al.) to the skepticism and ire of the coach (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and scouts (Jake McGee, Barry Moss, et al.).
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