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May 3, 2018 · Opening in theaters and VOD June 22ndDirected by: Ben LewinStarring: Paul Rudd, Mark Strong, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti, Sienna Miller, and Guy PearceThis g...
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- IFC Films
Paul Rudd stars in this true-life thriller about a Boston Red Sox catcher-turned-WWII spy tasked with assassinating a Nazi atomic scientist. With Jeff Daniel...
- 95 min
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Check out the official The Catcher Was a Spy trailer starring Paul Rudd! Let us know what you think in the comments below. Buy Tickets to The Catcher Was a ...
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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.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Ben Lewin
- 2018-06-22
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.
The Catcher Was a Spy tells the true story of Morris "Moe" Berg (Paul Rudd), the Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney and top-secret spy who helped the U.S. defeat Nazi Germany in the race to build the atomic bomb.
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Jun 22, 2018 · In 1934, Berg made the second of two trips to Japan as part of a baseball players’ delegation and filmed Tokyo harbor with a movie camera. While it seems unclear whether this was actually a precursor to Berg’s espionage activities, the film treats it that way, and the trip sets up some thoughtful conversations between Berg and Japanese delegate Isao Kawabata (Hiroyuki Sanada) about the ...