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Eight Men Out
1989 2h PG
Drama
,
History
,
Sport
7.2
87%
79%
69%
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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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Directed By
John Sayles
Written By
John Sayles
Studio
Orion Pictures
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Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
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Cast of Eight Men Out
John Cusack
Buck Weaver
Clifton James
Charles Comiskey
Michael Lerner
Arnold Rothstein
Christopher Lloyd
Bill Burns
John Mahoney
Kid Gleason
Charlie Sheen
Hap Felsch
David Strathairn
Eddie Cicotte
D.B. Sweeney
'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
Don Harvey
Swede Risberg
Michael Rooker
Chick Gandil
Perry Lang
Fred McMullin
James Read
Lefty Williams
Jace Alexander
Dickie Kerr
Gordon Clapp
Ray Schalk
Richard Edson
Billy Maharg
Bill Irwin
Eddie Collins
Michael Mantell
Abe Attell
Kevin Tighe
Sport Sullivan
Studs Terkel
Hugh Fullerton
John Anderson
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
James Desmond
Smitty
John Sayles
Ring Lardner
Eliot Asinof
Heydler
Clyde Bassett
Ban Johnson
John D. Craig
Rothstein's Lawyer
Michael Laskin
Austrian
Randle Mell
Ahern
Robert Motz
D.A.
Bill Raymond
Ben Short
Barbara Garrick
Helen Weaver
Wendy Makkena
Kate Jackson
Maggie Renzi
Rose Cicotte
Nancy Travis
Lyra Williams
Brad Garrett
Peewee
Tay Strathairn
Bucky
Jesse Vincent
Scooter
Jack George
Fan
Tom Surber
Fan
Tom Ledcke
Fan
David Carpenter
Fan
Bert Hatch
Fan
Jerry Brent
Writer
Bruce Schumacher
Writer
Robert Walsh
Writer
Matthew Harrington
Writer
Richard Lynch
Writer
Gary Williams
Writer
Michael L. Harris
Writer
Ken Berry
Heckler
David Rice
Enemy Fan
Tom Marshall
Browns Umpire
Jack Merrill
Grabiner
Josh Thompson
Winslow
Leigh 'Little Queenie' Harris
Singer
Julie Whitney
Woman in Bar
Dana Roi
Woman in Bar
Philip Murphy
Jimmy
Stephen Mendillo
Monk
J. Dennis Newman
Reds Player
Charles Siebert
Reds Catcher
Jim Martindale
Cincinnati Umpire
Bill Jennings
Chicago Umpire
David Hinman
Announcer
Danton Stone
Hired Killer
Patrick Grant
Irish Tenor
Tim Laughter
Betting Man
Brad Armacost
Attendant
Jim Stark
Reporter
Brad Griffith
Reporter
Steve Salge
Reporter
Dick Cusack
Judge Friend
Eaton Randles
Clerk
Max Chiddester
Nash
Rich Komenich
Jury Foreman
Patrick Brown
New Jersey Fan
John Griesemer
New Jersey Fan
Charles Yankoglu
New Jersey Fan
Michael B. Preston
New Jersey Fan
Eight Men Out Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The tone of Eight Men Out is reminiscent of the droll irony of John Huston's considerations of the vanity of human wishes and the corrupting power of money.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Eight Men Out never gathers much authority; the old themes have been hung on a rickety structure that constantly threatens to collapse.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's an insider's movie, a baseball expert's film that is hard for the untutored to follow.
People Magazine
Peter Travers
The light shed on this dark period of sports history makes Eight Men Out essential moviegoing. But what makes it heartbreaking is watching the toll taken on champions betraying their talent on a field of honor.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
In an ensemble movie like this one, an actor who grabs too much of the limelight can throw everything out of focus. The cast Sayles has assembled understands the value of teamwork.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown.
Variety
Variety Staff
Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Baseball fans might find this marginally absorbing; for anyone else it's as conscientious and stylistically pedestrian as Sayles's other films, and a mite overlong to boot.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
For Mr. Sayles, whose idealism has never been more affecting or apparent than it is in this story of boyish enthusiam gone bad in an all too grown-up world, Eight Men Out represents a home run.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
If John Sayles were a ballplayer, they'd call him Lefty -- not for his pitching arm but for his politics. The devoutly liberal filmmaker's political point of view is certain. It's his dramatic focus that sometimes gets fuzzy.
Philadelphia Daily News
Ben Yagoda
Unfortunately, the movie's didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
John Dolen
Sayles deftly re-creates the forces that drove men at top of their class on the diamond to take bribes: big-time crime in Chicago and heartless management in the head office.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The story is lumpy in spots, but fine performances and expressive camera work carry the day.
Common Sense Media
Randy White
A treat for baseball fans but might bore others.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
In 1988, writer-director John Sayles made his most ambitious film to date with this intelligent chronicle of the 1919 sports scandal, cast with some of the best actors around (Strathairn, Cusack, Sweeney, Sheen).
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Sayles gives the film an intelligent, well-researched, nostalgic tone with plenty of quiet moments to round out the excitement.
TV Guide
Sayles not only depicts the circumstances that led to the fix (most notably Sox owner Charles Comiskey's legendary tightfistedness), but he also re-creates the games in great detail, making the best possible use of an athletic cast.
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