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Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2012)

Moneyball
The sex/baseball analogy doesn't end with bases and home-runs.
In fact, both activities also employ stats, performance-enhancing drugs and the capacity to bore women easily.
Regrettably, this drama has nary a female to corroborate with that last comparison.
When 3 of his star players jump ship, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), is left with a void to fill.
Unable to attract any of the high paid players, Beane, instead, hires a young economist (Jonah Hill) to identify the sport's most undervalued players so that he can add them to his roster.
While the unorthodox strategy attracts the ire of the A's manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), all suspicions are quelled once the theory comes to fruition.
Though it's a savvy deconstruction of baseball's financial divide, this true story can at times become tedious.
Besides, blue-collar baseball fans will always prefer to drunkenly harassing rich athletes. (Yellow Light)
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