Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 126'
Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics Baseball team, must face the critical situation of his team after all of the best players left to other teams offering better contracts. During a match against the Cleveland Indians, he meets Peter Brand, a young economist just graduated from Yale, who has some interesting ideas on how to appraise the players’ qualities. Despite the oppositions, Peter’s theories, supported by Billy, bring the team to unhoped results, changing everybody’s lives. “I wasn’t interested in the tropes of sports movies. I’d rather not end a film with a hero carried off on the shoulders of teammates in a stadium where fans are screaming their heads off, champagne corks flying, trophies, fireworks, and all of that. I prefer the quiet triumphs, that might not burn as bright but deeper and more lasting, where you see someone struggle internally and then come out the other side to realize something has changed within them.”
Biography
film director
Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller (New York, NY, USA, 1966) after The Cruise (1998), directed the biopic Capote (2005), interpreted by his childhood friend Philip Seymour Hoffman who received the Oscar for best actor thanks to this movie. Also Miller received a nomination for best director thanks to that movie. In addition he directed many advertising shorts and music videos among these Bob Dylan’s When the Deal Goes Down (2006); he also played the part of himself in the mockumentary made to be the bonus content in the DVD of the comedy movie Knocked Up (2007) by Judd Apatow.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Cruise (doc., 1998), Capote (Truman Capote - A sangue freddo, 2005), Moneyball (L’arte di vincere - Moneyball, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Bennett Miller
soggetto/story
Stan Chervin dal libro/from the book Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game di/by Michael Lewis
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
fotografia/cinematography
Wally Pfister
montaggio/film editing
scenografia/production design
Jess Gonchor
costumi/costume design
musica/music
Mychael Danna
suono/sound
Ron Bochar
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Brad Pitt (Billy Beane), Jonah Hill (Peter Brand), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Art Howe), Robin Wright (Sharon), Chris Pratt (Scott Hatteberg), Stephen Bishop (David Justice), Brent Jennings (Ron Washington), Ken Medlock (Grady Fuson), Tammy Blanchard (Elizabeth Hatteberg), Jack McGee (John Poloni)
produttori/producers
Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt
produzione/production
Columbia Pictures
distribuzione/distribution
Warner Bros. Pictures Italia
vendita all’estero/world sales
Sony Pictures
