Movie
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. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Details
- Release date
- 1988-09-02
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Cusack as Buck Weaver
- Clifton James as Charles Comiskey
- Michael Lerner as Arnold Rothstein
- Christopher Lloyd as Bill Burns
- John Mahoney as Kid Gleason
- Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch
- David Strathairn as Eddie Cicotte
- D. B. Sweeney as 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
- Don Harvey as Swede Risberg
- Michael Rooker as Chick Gandil
- Perry Lang as Fred McMullin
- James Read as Lefty Williams
Crew
- John Sayles - Director
- John Sayles - Writer
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