The general manager of the Oakland A's (Brad Pitt) teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games.
The national reviews mostly seem high on this film but I found it to be too long and too slowly paced to be really entertaining. It's at least thirty minutes too long and there's clearly a lot that could have been dispensed with. I also had a hard time ever getting in sync with Pitt's character and as a result I didn't really care what happened to him. There is a very fine sequence toward the end of the film where the team is attempting to break a record that really caught my interest, but that was the only one. Baseball fans will no doubt be far more impressed than I was.
No real reason to worry about the size of the screen or the quality of the sound. This is mostly about sitting around and talking. There are no extra sequences once the film credits start. Theatres/Times.
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