Shaikh Ayaz feels the good thing about Moneyball is that it doesn't play out like a sports film.Sometimes, it's best not to go by the book, but to turn convention on its head. That is what Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) does in this film set in the world of that quintessentially American sport, baseball. Beane is general manager of a team that is underfunded and loses its best players to other teams. But the film is not about records or statistics or even baseball; it's about this one man who wishes to "shake things up" and produce a winning team.
Much of Bennett Miller's Moneyball is about Billy and his ability to get by, accepting new challenges and keep the good work coming in. Observe him grabbing a bite in between business transactions; he has a sparse family life which we know through the limited screen time accorded to his relationship with his daughter. We don't know if he has any friends, though he does develop a close bond with his assistant Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an economist who thinks he has an unusual winning formula that Billy is willing
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