The Catcher Was a Spy is a movie directed by Ben Lewin in 2018 and based on the book The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff, first published in 1994. The movie features Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Mark Strong, Paul Giamatti, and others.
What users say
“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Moe Berg, a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. Werner Heisenberg, who won the Nobel Prize in 1932 for pioneering quantum physics, is now in charge of the Nazis’ attempts to create an atom bomb. If so, it will fall to Berg to assassinate the brilliant physicist.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
98
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Catcher Was a Spy
Director: Ben Lewin
Country: USA
Year: 2018
Length: 1h38m
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Year
1994
Pages
480
Book Rate
7.16
S: Goodreads
Book
The Catcher Was a Spy
Subtitle: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff
Country: USA
First published in: 1994
Length: 480 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“It was really important to me that people would experience the same feelings from the movie as they did from the book.”
PABLO BERGER (Filmmaker)
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