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Eight Men Out (1988)
Directed by John Sayles
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.
Rated PG | Length 120 minutes
Actors
John Cusack | Clifton James | Michael Lerner | Christopher Lloyd | John Mahoney | Charlie Sheen | David Strathairn | D. B. Sweeney | Don Harvey | Michael Rooker | Perry Lang | James Read | Jace Alexander | Gordon Clapp | Richard Edson | Bill Irwin | Michael Mantell | Kevin Tighe | Studs Terkel | John Anderson | James Desmond | John Sayles | Eliot Asinof | Clyde Bassett | John D. Craig | Michael Laskin | Randle Mell | Robert Motz | Bill Raymond | Barbara Garrick | Wendy Makkena | Maggie Renzi | Nancy Travis | Brad Garrett | Tay Strathairn | Jesse Vincent | Jack George | Tom Surber | Tom Ledcke | David Carpenter | Bert Hatch | Jerry Brent | Bruce Schumacher | Robert Walsh | Matthew Harrington | Richard Lynch | Gary Williams | Michael L. Harris | Ken Berry | David Rice | Tom Marshall | Jack Merrill | Josh Thompson | Leigh 'Little Queenie' Harris | Julie Whitney | Dana Roi | Philip Murphy | Stephen Mendillo | J. Dennis Newman | Charles Siebert | Jim Martindale | Bill Jennings | David Hinman | Danton Stone | Patrick Grant | Tim Laughter | Brad Armacost | Jim Stark | Brad Griffith | Steve Salge | Dick Cusack | Eaton Randles | Max Chiddester | Rich Komenich | Patrick Brown | John Griesemer | Charles Yankoglu | Michael B. Preston