--- title: 'The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)' type: 'film' director: 'Ben Lewin' released: '2018-01-19' runtime_minutes: 98 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-catcher-was-a-spy-2018' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4602066/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) 2018 · R · 98 min · Drama, History · United States ## Synopsis The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the 1994 book 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. Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Tom Wilkinson, Giancarlo Giannini, Hiroyuki Sanada, Guy Pearce, and Paul Giamatti also star. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was released on June 22, 2018, by IFC Films. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ben Lewin](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-lewin) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Rodat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-rodat) - **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Shore](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-shore) - **Director of Photography:** [Andrij Parekh](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrij-parekh) ## Cast - [Ben Miles](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-miles) - [Brian Caspe](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-caspe) - [Tom Wilkinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-wilkinson) - [Mark Strong](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-strong) - [Bobby Schofield](https://cinepixo.com/people/bobby-schofield) - [Pierfrancesco Favino](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierfrancesco-favino) - [Agnese Nano](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnese-nano) - [Peter Hosking](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-hosking) - [Paul Giamatti](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-giamatti) - [Sienna Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/sienna-miller) - [Connie Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/connie-nielsen) - [Aña Geislerova](https://cinepixo.com/people/ana-geislerova) - [William Hope](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hope) - [Cristiano Donati](https://cinepixo.com/people/cristiano-donati) - [Demetri Goritsas](https://cinepixo.com/people/demetri-goritsas) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-catcher-was-a-spy-2018 Film facts: Wikidata (Q30597799); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.