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Jun 22, 2018 · This film from director Ben Lewin and writer Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") is biographical drama about Morris "Moe" Berg, an unremarkable major league catcher who went on to work for Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II.
Jun 21, 2018 · “The Catcher Was a Spy” is a character drama and an espionage thriller with a premise so peculiar that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to contrive it.
- Ben Lewin
Jun 22, 2018 · By David Edelstein. Paul Rudd as Moe Berg in The Catcher Was a Spy . Photo: Dusan Martincek/IFC Films. The tight-lipped protagonist of The Catcher Was a Spy is Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), a...
- Senior Movie Critic
The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff. It stars Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, a former baseball player who joined the war effort during World War II and participated in espionage for the U.S. Government.
Jun 22, 2018 · While bursting at the seams with outstanding on-screen talent and impressive camerawork, The Catcher Was a Spy is a period thriller crippled by numerous historical inaccuracies, consistently disjointed editing, and an overall lukewarm atmosphere.
- Ben Lewin
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- Paul Rudd
Jun 19, 2018 · When Nicholas Dawidoff’s book The Catcher Was a Spy was first published in 1994, it was one of those rare, unbelievable stranger-than-fiction stories that practically leaped off the page.
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Jun 22, 2018 · The Catcher Was a Spy: Directed by Ben Lewin. With Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen. Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
