John Cusack
Buck Weaver
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Eight Men Out tells the true story of the infamous 'Black Sox' scandal of 1919, in which the White Sox players deliberately lost the World Series. The movie places the scandal in the context of a labor dispute between the players and their then all-powerful team owner, and how mobster Arnold Rothstein took advantage of the dispute.
May 6, 2014. TOP CRITIC. Mar 20, 2013. Aug 25, 2023. Rated: 2.5/4 • Jul 20, 2023. Rated: 3/4 • Oct 22, 2022. The Chicago White Sox, who are set to play the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series of...
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Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “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 ...
Mar 22, 2022 · EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) | Official Trailer | MGM - YouTube. MGM. 1.16M subscribers. Subscribed. 266. 32K views 2 years ago #MGM #EightMenOut. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the...
This dramatization follows the 1919 major league baseball scandal involving the Chicago White Sox who as a team accepted bribes to throw the World Series for money. 1,121 IMDb 7.2 1 h 59 min 1988. X-Ray PG. Drama · Historical · Anxious · Downbeat. Available to rent or buy.
Eight Men Out. Overview. Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain.
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.
