Brad Pitt shows off his negotiations skills for recruting baseball players for his team with the help of Jonah Hill in this clip from MONEYBALL. Brad PItt's performance is getting a lot of buzz from the recent premiere of the baseball-inspired movie at this year's Toronto Film Festival.
Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill star in MONEYBALL, a true story based on the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's attempt to put together a baseball team with a limited budget.
In MONEYBALL, Jonah Hill convinces Brad Pitt's Billy character to recuit players based on computer-generated analysis. With a screenplay by Academy Award winning scribes Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and Steven Zaillian (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, American Gangster), Brad Pitt is garnering buzz on a Academy Award-worthy performance for his first sports movie.
The screenplay is based on a story by Stan Chervin, based on the book by Michael Lewis. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright also star in MONEYBALL.
In Theaters September 23
Director: Bennett Miller
Producers: by Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Scott Rudin
