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Review: ‘Moneyball’ Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 1:10 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Easily one of the strongest films so far this year, Moneyball tells the story (based on actual events) of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), General Manager of the perennially underfunded Oakland A’s. When Beane finds his team poached of its best players at the end of the 2001 season, he decides to take a radically different […]

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Steve Kelley Reviews “Moneyball” Starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 1:32 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

“It’s hard not to romanticize baseball.” Anyone who’s played baseball and/or has a passion for the game can understand the sentiment voiced by Billy Beane in Moneyball. Other films such as Field of Dreams have done so with tremendous success. Moneyball, on the other hand, doesn’t do so. Based on the novel by Michael Lewis, the […]

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