It holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s the international football break, Ireland have just lost to England, maybe it’s time to get your sports fix from somewhere else.
Luckily one of the best sports movies of the 21st century is among the movies on TV tonight – Moneyball.
The 2011 sports drama is based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, which follows the Oakland Athletics baseball team’s 2002 season and their general manager attempts to assemble a competitive team.
Brad Pitt stars as general manager Billy Beane, alongside Jonah Hill as assistant general manager Peter Brand.
The managers are faced with the franchise’s limited budget, so they go about building a team of undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players.
While the movie is more about the numbers behind baseball, rather than the sport itself, it’s still an incredible underdog story we love to watch, that will no doubt give you goosebumps along the way.
Moneyball received critical acclaim upon its release and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actor for Hill.
If you’re looking to catch Moneyball tonight, it’s airing on Comedy Central at 6.30pm, or you can watch it on Netflix.
Here are the other movies on TV tonight
The Proposal – BBC One – 10.30pm
Romcom starring Sandra Bullock as a Canadian publishing executive who gets her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to act as her fiancé after learning that she may face deportation from the U.S.
Greed – Channel 4 – 12.25am
Comedy starring Steve Coogan as a billionaire fashion mogul, which focuses on the build-up to his 60th birthday celebrations on the Greek island of Mykonos.
The Queen – ITV3 – 9pm
Helen Mirren stars in an Oscar-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II, with the film depicting the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death.
Casino Royale – ITV4 – 10.50pm
Daniel Craig starts his 007 career by going up against the chilling Mads Mikkelsen in a high-stakes poker game – a great choice among the movies on TV tonight.
The Day After Tomorrow – Film Four – 6.40pm
Co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich, this 2004 blockbuster flick sees climate change on Earth bring about a new ice age. It’s also just been added to Netflix.
The Equalizer 2 – Film Four – 9pm
Denzel Washington plays a former CIA officer who reluctantly returns to action in order to protect a teenage trafficking victim from members of the Russian mafia.
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