Moneyball Trailer: Check out Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane

First Moneyball Movie Trailer a Mixed Bag for Fans of the Book

The baseball fan in me absolutely loved Moneyball, Michael Lewis' bestseller about the Oakland A's and their penny-pinching rise to power. Yet while I was reading it, at no point did my inner cinephile start screaming, "Hey! This would make a great movie!"

Well, they made one anyway. Moneyball the motion picture—directed by Bennett Miller and starring Brad Pitt as A's general manager Billy Beane—is due to be released this September. And on Thursday, the first trailer arrived.

Having watched the trailer four or five times now, all I can say is that it's a little...
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