Synopsis: The Oakfield Athletics Baseball Team loses its star players to free agency and when it is time to recruit the replacements, the manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) is constrained by payroll allocated to the players. On his visit to Cleveland Indians, Billy comes across an Ivy League economics graduate by the name of Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) who had unorthodox ways to assess the value of the players. Impressed by this, Billy employs Brand to use the same metrics and sophisticated mathematical computer-based calculations to come up with a team that will have the performance optimized in the restricted payroll. Although this move is met with great criticism from the team’s management, Billy chooses to move on with his team of misfits, with the hope of seeing them victorious.

Description: Billy Beane collaborates with an Ivy League economics major graduate to assemble a competitive baseball team within the meager budget by employing computer and mathematical based calculations and the resulting analysis to draft players.

Review: Moneyball received a lot of critical acclaim which is totally justified for the extremely well defined execution of such a great movie that is a biographical sports drama film. The film has even featured in the Toronto International Film Festival of 2011 and received massive applause.

The trailer of the movie exhibited the fundamental quality of the coach Billy Beane who brought about an innovative strategy to the baseball world to actually realize wins from a team of potential misfits which isconfined by the limited payroll.

If we delve into the nuances of the movie, we derive the fact that the movie itself is multilayered in its purpose of providing entertainment in the sense that for baseball fans, it is a movie of baseball glory for an underdog team. For emotional audience, the movie adapts a true story to bring out a thought-provoking film where standing up for what you believe in is the core element. Similarly for a geeky audience, the ability to apply mathematical solutions and computer based analysis would excite them.

Although the trailer of the movie would suggest that the movie would contain a lot of baseball match sequences, the film is actually focused on the notion of behind-the-scenes strategy formulation and implementation which were indispensable to impressive performances on the field.

Moneyball, 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating