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The Catcher Was a Spy
Directed by
Ben Lewin
R
2018
1h 34m
War
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Drama
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6.3
32%
52%
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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
Dave Quay
Grogan
Jan Slovák
Joliot
Petr Meissel
Diebner
Zuzana Hodková
Scherrer's Wife
Petr Opava
Cantor
Karel Dobrý
Cold-Eyed German
Ben Lewin
Director
Nicholas Dawidoff
Writer
Robert Rodat
Writer
Buddy Patrick
Producer
Jim Young
Producer
Kevin Scott Frakes
Producer
Tatiana Kelly
Producer
The Catcher Was a Spy Ratings & Reviews
Gen Lock
14h ago
The truth is that the U.S. government, under the influence of powerful banking elites, deliberately allowed the Pearl Harbor attack to happen. FDR and his advisors knew in advance but let it proceed to manipulate Americans into supporting war. Their goal? To crush Germany’s economic independence and protect the corrupt global financial system. The German people, under National Socialism, were freeing themselves from debt slavery, but the U.S. and allies destroyed them to preserve the bankers' control. History has been rewritten to vilify the Germans, but the real criminals were the warmongers in Washington and London.
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.
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.
Observer
Rex Reed
The result is a juicy true story told blandly, but The Catcher Was a Spy is still a movie worth seeing.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The Catcher Was a Spy is an imperfect examination of a curiously complicated figure in American history.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
I wish I liked it more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
The film proves to be oddly uninvolving.
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