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Brad Pitt is getting rave reviews and there's 'buzz' about a possible Oscar nomination for his performance in a new film set inside American professional baseball. Moneyball is based on a true story.

  "There are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap ...and then there's us."

  A decade ago, Billy Beane was the newly named general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Wealthier clubs were luring away all of his star players; and the northern California team could not match those lucrative contract offers.

  BEANE: "I need more money."

  OWNER: "We're not New York. Find players with the money that we do have."

  While the A's scouts set out to recruit young, unseasoned college and high school players to fill out the roster, Beane happened on young economist Peter Brand who used statistical analysis ...a mathematical technique called "saber metrics" ...to build an affordable team that could win games.

  PETER: Your goal shouldn't be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins and in order to buy wins you need to buy runs."

  BEANE: "Who are you?"

  PETER: "I'm Peter Brand."

  BEANE: "First job in baseball?"

  PETER: "It's my first job anywhere."

  The technique confounded the experts, but produced a team that fit the Oakland budget ...and could win games.

  Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane and is also a producer on the film that went through several writers and directors before Pitt was able to get it made.

  "It's complicated material," notes Pitt. "It's not your conventional story or storyline, but I couldn't let go of the story of these guys who were trapped in an unfair situation and by necessity they had to think differently. They had to reinvent themselves and in doing so they really tested who they were."

  PETER: "I believe there's a championship team that we can afford because everyone else undervalues them."

  BEANE: "If we win with this team we'll change the game."

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