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The Catcher Was a Spy
Directed by
Ben Lewin
2018
1h 34m
R
War
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Biography
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6.3
33%
51%
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Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
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Cast of The Catcher Was a Spy
Paul Rudd
Moe Berg
Mark Strong
Werner Heisenberg
Sienna Miller
Estella Huni
Connie Nielsen
Koranda
Shea Whigham
Joe Cronin
Hiroyuki Sanada
Kawabata
Tom Wilkinson
Paul Scherrer
William Hope
John Kleran
Giancarlo Giannini
Professor Eduardo Amaldi
Pierfrancesco Favino
Martinuzzi
Anna Geislerová
Rathe
Agnese Nano
Mrs. Amaldi
Brian Caspe
Commanding Officer
Demetri Goritsas
Clifton Fadiman
Roy McCrerey
Princeton Conductor
Susan Garfield
Red Sox Fan
Ted Otis
Radio Show Director
Philip Lenkowsky
NYC Taxi Driver
Bobby Schofield
Bill Dalton
John Schwab
Lefty Grove
Jordan Long
Babe Ruth
Jimmy LeBlanc
First Base Coach
Kristen Anne Ferraro
Baseball Fan
James McVan
Lou Gehrig
Gabriel Andrews
British Colonel
Cristiano Donati
Italian Resistance 2
Rob Lévesque
Red Sox Fan
Dušan Kiš
Italian Resistance
Tim Hackney
Jimmie Foxx
Marco Velutti
Italian Resistance 1
Roman Vangeli
Gangster
Karoline Patrick
Catherine
Jeff Fritz
OS Trainer
Martin Janouš
Franklin Adams
Marc Cram
Karl Friedrich Von Wiezsacker
Hélène Cardona
Matt Lindquist
Scott Lipman
U.S Army Pitcher
Thomas Brogan
Fenway Fan
Benjamin Crocker
Guy Eating Peanuts
Joseph Oliveira
Fenway Fan
Timur Sibatov
Italian Civilian
Scott Sederquist
Fenway Fan
Dean Littlefield
Baseball Fan
Paul Giamatti
Sam Goudsmit
Guy Pearce
Robert Furman
Jeff Daniels
Bill Donovan
The Catcher Was a Spy Reviews
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
In Moe Berg, Rudd helps director Ben Lewin (Paperback Writer, The Sessions) add another unforgettable passive hero to the his increasing menagerie.
Observer
Rex Reed
The result is a juicy true story told blandly, but The Catcher Was a Spy is still a movie worth seeing.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
It's an absorbing character study of a most intriguing man.
What the Flick?!
Christy Lemire
It's so safe, and it's so dry, and it's so understated to a fault.
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Handsome cinematography fails to disguise the low production value, and constant cross-cutting between strategy meetings and the mission itself make both parts of the sandwich feel moldy.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A much more pallid experience than this eminently juicy subject deserves.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Boring is the last word you should use for a sports-hero-turned-spy story like this; it's the only one that comes to mind after you've seen the film.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
I wish I liked it more.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
If it wasn't a true story, it would be ridiculous. But the problem with Ben Lewin's film isn't the plausibility of the storyline, it's the execution of the plot, which comes off like a stiff noir rather than a crackling thriller.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Somehow, The Catcher Was A Spy is flavorless and unexciting, thanks to an execution as formulaic as a well-worn copy of The Joy Of Cooking.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
"The Catcher Was a Spy" only ever penetrates the surface - of Berg's psyche, of heroism in the face of evil, of America's pastime - so that historical events ostensibly thrilling are rendered rote.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
Lewin has crafted a biopic spy thriller, kind of, but the script has neither the character shadings to be a biopic nor the pacing and twist and turns to be a spy thriller.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Missed opportunities are everywhere.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The Catcher Was a Spy is an imperfect examination of a curiously complicated figure in American history.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The movie is well-crafted, but it doesn't have the fullness you'd expect in a movie with so much believe-it-or-not weirdness. It feels more like a nifty anecdote.
NPR
Scott Tobias
We want a catcher, not a belly scratcher. And there's an abundance of belly scratching going on in this film.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
The biggest adrenaline pump comes when Berg, stir-crazy after working at a desk during World War II, runs at full speed down a hallway. There's a shootout later on that gets less attention than that one short sprint.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Berg and Heisenberg conduct most of their dialogue, when they finally meet, in chess moves. And the movie tantalizingly leaves open the question of whether the game ended in a mate or a resignation.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
The film proves to be oddly uninvolving.
Village Voice
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Berg was an enigmatic and underappreciated Renaissance Man, and we leave the film not especially enlightened.
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