Our first example of the "Cool Guys and Their Fat Friends" phenomenon is also the most recent.
As the general manager of the struggling Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane needed not only a way to start winning games but also a fat sidekick. Fortunately, they both came in the form of Jonah Hill's Peter Brand (a pseudonym for Paul DePosta), who brought with him the idea of assembling a team of underdogs to really stick it to the moneyed opposition, which gives Moneyball the same plot as roughly 85% of all sports films, summer camp flicks and "Revenge of the Nerds" movies.
