Starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, the film is based on Michael Lewis' book about how Oakland Athletics' general manager, Billy Beane, played by Pitt, took a roster of rejects and the second-lowest payroll in the majors all the way to the playoffs.
Hill plays a Yale numbers cruncher who convinces Beane that the best way to evaluate players is not by how many runs they drive in but how many times they can get on base -- the logic being that the more players on base, the more runs scored, the more games won.
With screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who won the Oscar for "The Social Network," collaborating with equally acclaimed Steven Zaillian ("Schindler's List"), and "Capote" director Bennett Miller at the helm, the film could join other great baseball movies of the past.
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