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'The Catcher Was a Spy' is more pallid than its eminently juicy subject deserves

( R ) ( Monitor Movie Guide )

Paul Rudd stars as Morris 'Moe' Berg, a middling catcher in baseball鈥檚 major leagues who was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate physicist Werner Heisenberg.

  • By Peter Rainer Film critic

Morris 鈥淢oe鈥� Berg was a middling catcher in baseball鈥檚 major leagues who, in 1944, was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate Werner Heisenberg, the physicist believed to be in charge of Hitler鈥檚 A-bomb ambitions.

鈥淭he Catcher Was a Spy,鈥� directed by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd as the Ivy-educated Berg, who was fluent in seven languages, is a much more pallid experience than this eminently juicy subject deserves. Grade: C (Rated R for some sexuality, violence, and language.)

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