Moneyball
A baseball management drama about changing an established system before the evidence is visible, with analytics becoming a conflict over authority and risk.
- YEAR
- 2011
- DIRECTOR
- Bennett Miller
- COUNTRY
- United States
- LENGTH
- 133 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Baseball · Fiction
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Brad Pitt · Jonah Hill · Philip Seymour Hoffman
Moneyball in the wider sports-film conversation
Moneyball is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. Moneyball is a defining modern example of sports cinema relocating suspense from the field to the office, where models, budgets and institutional habits collide.
Continue through Baseball, Bennett Miller, 2011 and United States. For a closer reading, see Moneyball Numbers And Pressure.
Synopsis
A baseball management drama about changing an established system before the evidence is visible, with analytics becoming a conflict over authority and risk.
Place in film history
Moneyball is a defining modern example of sports cinema relocating suspense from the field to the office, where models, budgets and institutional habits collide.