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“Eight Men Out” is an oddly unfocused movie made of earth tones, sidelong glances and eliptic conversations. It tells the story of how the stars of the 1919 Chicago White Sox team took payoffs from gamblers to throw the World Series, but if you are not already familiar with that story you’re unlikely to understand it after seeing this film.
Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/24/23 Full Review Taylor L 'Eight Men Out'. A drama about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, or a comedy about a group of 30-something closeted men...
- (55)
- John Sayles
- PG
- John Cusack
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. Full Review | Mar...
Incredibly handsome and lavish-looking for a low-budget indie, it's a meticulous re-creation of the first huge scandal in American professional sports, and the beginning of the loss of innocence in pro baseball (and American popular culture by extension).
Jun 29, 1989 · Eight Men Out: Directed by John Sayles. With Jace Alexander, John Cusack, Gordon Clapp, Don Harvey. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
- (22K)
- Drama, History, Sport
- John Sayles
- 1989-06-29
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles.
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Eight Men Out Review. In 1919, Eight ball players from the Chicago White Sox were approached by a gambling syndicate to throw the Series against the Cincinatti Reds. The terrible pay and...
