Moneyball 4K UHD + Digital Insert
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Last update: 03-10-2026
Product details
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Package Dimensions : 6.3 x 5.35 x 0.5 inches; 2.24 ounces
- Director : Bennett Miller
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 13 minutes
- Release date : April 28, 2026
- Actors : Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright
- Producers : Brad Pitt, Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz
- Studio : Sony
- ASIN : B0GR7773FN
- Best Sellers Rank:#5 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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- Customer Reviews:4.74.7 out of 5 stars(12,830)
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- David SeamanThe State of the Art: Entertaining America"Moneyball". Who would have guessed? Because the film APPEARS to be about baseball- which is fine with me- it waited unwatched on my shelf for many months. I purchased the film because of Aaron Sorkin- a writer for whom there is no equal today though for the past he is with Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare. Sorkinis responsible for so much but you all know him for writing the famous Nicholson line: ":You can't handle the truth!" Now part of LAmerican vernacular, like Sophie's Choice and Are You Lookin' at me? But I discovered a lot more. "Moneyball" is not about Baseball; it is about human beings who produce entertainment for America. After 32 years in the business of music and theatre, I spent 50% of my time with suits, agents, meetings and contracts, ownership of rights and a percent of the gross and box office and press and publicity and total lack of privacy- well, Theatre, film, music sports: America wants it and this film will show you the behind the scenes truth. Expertly, emotionally and with intense suspense.
It is impossible to cite specific indivduals for the excellence of this film because the collaborative efect is so spectacular that one almost fails to notice. This film is based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis (Norton & C0) but then, in a moment of brilliance, by executive producer, Scott Rudin, the screenplay was as mentioned, written by Aaron Sorkin and the remarkable Steven Zaillan. The screenplay is flawless and one can tell that there was very little- if any- improvised lines in the filming. There is a musical fluidity to the speach and soundtrack that line up flawless;ly, almost as if the two playwrites and fim composer, Mychael Danna, were all in one brain with a clear view off the final edit. The score is spectacular and Danna is not the only one responsible. The entire music department- including and additional composer- has created a musical masterpiece to sync with all else.
Christopher Tellefsen's film editing is so beautiful, masterful and- yes, as the film teaches us- manipulative that even the most rugged 55 year old man will find a lump in his throat at times. But Bennett Miller, director, gets the credit for it all as the man with the final say and the man who, along with the written word, pulled these moving and remarkable performances out of some remarkable veteran actors. Brad Pitt has established himself as a serious actor here, though had he not been so remarkably attractive and half naked in "Thelma and Louise" the world would have seen it there. As a fourty-four year old man, divorced with a 13 year old daughter we see the sincere emotions that tug at the inside of his soul. He has a passion for baseball and at age 18 gave up a Scholarship at Stanord to sign with The New York Mets; a first draft pick that lasted only one season. Now he is the General Manager o the Oakland A's during the 2002 season and it is his intent to change baseball. He does this with the help of the very gifted actor, Jonah Hall by using statistical data to create a low budget baseball club, something for which everyone thinks is insane, particularly the team manager, played by the legend Phillip Seymour hofman in yet another dazling character performance. Pitt plays Billy Beane, a man pulled in many directions: baseball, his past, and his undying devotion to his daughter (expertly played by the miraculous Kerris Dorsey who twice in the film exhibts a singer-singwriter talent for her father perfformed by her without the use of studio fixing or embelishment- a true talent.) who, it turns out, delivers the most remarkable wisdom that the film offers. Her acting is something we haven;t sen from a 13 year old since Jpodie Foster did "Taxi Driver." This credit is indeed shared with Miller's direction, who clearly explained many adult and kid situations rather than the Hollywood tradition of cute, crying wide eyes children. In fact, the scenes between her and Pitt are some of the films most powerful. Still, I must mention Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Brent Jennings and- in a small but powerful performance, Diane Behrens, first amazing us in 1989 wit the film adaptation of Bob Woodward's "Wired." Her time on screen is so short; she has few lines and all in flashback memory (she plays Beane's mother) but what this woman conveys with her face and eyes is on a par with Meryl Streep.Arliss Howard, as the owner of the Boston red Sox, gives a remarkable eight minute performance filmed on location at Fenway Park-doing character work unlike anything he's done before.
Most of us take the Director of Photography for granted, but, as with "Out Of Africa" this is one where we must pause. Wally Pfister has created a myriad of images that capture bnoth granduer and subtlety using angles, lighting, weather, composition in ways that are rarely seen on film.
All of these elements, and many many more, come together to create a masterpiece of film. It will entertain and move you with one watch. That won't satisfy you. You will return, as most people do with Sorkin's writing, and you will begin to notice details in every department that you had;t seen previously. In an era when most of what Hollywood is producing is mindless special effect fantasy and Comic Book dreck, this is more exciting, more moving and more artistic than any film I have seen this decade.
At this price, buy the thing. No matter what. For baseball fans this will be a vertible orgasmic event- better than the 86 world series. - ProvidentialGreat movieEven if you've never heard of the amazing 20-win streak of the Oakland Athletics, or Sabermetrics, this is just a good film. The entire sport and the conflict over the rise of statistic-driven baseball is told through a framing device where general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) struggles to balance work and life during a momentous time in his career. At the end of the day, all he really wants is for his daughter to be proud of him. Any audience can understand that.
The short version of the sports part of the plot is that even though baseball fans have always been obsessed with statistics, some economists and mathematicians figured out that the stats everyone focused on didn't correspond very well to wins. A new field- now referred to as Sabermetrics- was developed in an attempt to generate a new mathematical method for determining which factors of a game actually affect win rate.
In short, "old" baseball relied on gut feeling and good looks. A player who looked strong and handsome and hit a lot of home runs was everyone's top pick. The New York Yankees spent hundreds of millions developing these sorts of players, since their nearly unlimited funding meant they could buy all the best talent. Meanwhile at the Oakland Athletics team where we meet Billy Beane, they couldn't afford much of anything. Instead, they had to use their limited resources to try and generate an edge. The new field of Sabermetrics told them that looks didn't really generate wins. What generated wins- in a very simplified form- was for batters to be very picking about when they swing at, and then get on base reliably. The best possible hitter wasn't someone who tried to hit a home run every time (home run hitters often have lousy averages). The best hitter was someone who would stand at the plate watching 3 balls and 2 strikes go by, and only then get a hit or a walk to first base. Repeat this over the course of the lineup, and you get reliable scoring, not to mention the pitchers get tired and have to be changed out for second- or third- rate replacements more quickly.
The Oakland A's went on to generate the longest winning streak in the history of baseball, using relatively cheap players that nobody wanted, playing a style of baseball that people called boring. They even beat the Yankees on a few occasions, despite spending a fraction of the money to do so. The A's even made it to the doorstep of the World Series before finally losing- which as the statistics show- was probably just a fluke.
There's so much to love about this film. There's an interesting core story- how a revolution in thinking changed baseball. There's a great human story of Billy Beane negotiating his life between the stress of his job and his home life. There are also a ton of great actors. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane is great. Jonah Hill plays his breakthrough role as Peter Brand, a hodgepodge representing sabermetrics figures of the time including Paul DePodesta. There's Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and Chris Pratt.
I'll give a special mention to Chris Pratt. Not only was this one of his first big roles, but his character Scott Hatteberg is amazing and crucial. Scott Hatteberg was totally washed-up under the old baseball system. He was a catcher who had a nerve problem which caused him to lose sensation in his fingers, making it impossible for him to throw the ball reliably to second base. He was done. That is, until the A's saw that Hatteberg had a habit of getting to first base every time he went up to bat, which went unnoticed since Hatteberg no longer "looked" like a good player. I won't spoil the movie for you but let me quote a line from the book, which says that if the A's could have stocked a team with people who could hit like Scott Hatteberg, they would have been projected to win every single game of the season including the World Series. This movie is therefore also a big story about redemption, and underdogs. It's beautiful.