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Eight Men Out (1988) | User Rating
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Release Date
Sep 2, 1988 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 8, 2001
• R2: 7 Jun 2004
Budget USD 6,000,000
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
1 hour, 59 minutes
Country USA
Studio Orion, Pillsbury Films
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Other Titles
• Eight Men Out
• Acht Mann und ein Skandal (1988)
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Genre: Drama, Sports, True Story, Courtroom, Period Piece, Scams And Cons
Tagline: The Scandal That Rocked A Nation
Plot: Unlike other nostalgic baseball films (THE NATURAL, FIELD OF DREAMS), director John Sayles's EIGHT MEN OUT explores one of the darkest moments in the history of the sport--1919's infamous Black Sox scandal, when eight players on the heavily favored Chicago White Sox agreed to throw the World Series. Based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book of the same name, the film investigates why the players--including the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, who many believe belongs in the Hall of Fame--would purposely lose the most important game of their lives. Set in the same time period as Sayles's MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN OUT shows how money and exploitative labor conditions destroy the purity of the game. Even though the film has no star parts and ends on a bleak note, EIGHT MEN OUT was the second Sayles film to receive financing from a major studio. Studs Terkel appears as the famous journalist Hugh Fullerton, who exposes the scandal, while Asinof and Sayles also have small roles.
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| Written by |
| John Sayles
The Howling, Piranha, The Clan of the Cave Bear |
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| Cast |
John Cusack
Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Stand by Me |
 | Bill Irwin
The Manchurian Candidate, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Hot Shots! |
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 | Charlie Sheen
Being John Malkovich, Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Music By |
Mason Daring
Lone Star, The Opposite of Sex, Where the Heart Is |
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