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02/09/1988 Drama, History 2h 0m
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When the cheering stopped, there were... 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.

  1. John Sayles

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Cusack

    Buck Weaver

  2. Clifton James

    Charles Comiskey

  3. Michael Lerner

    Arnold Rothstein

  4. Christopher Lloyd

    Bill Burns

  5. John Mahoney

    Kid Gleason

  6. Charlie Sheen

    Hap Felsch

  7. David Strathairn

    Eddie Cicotte

  8. D. B. Sweeney

    'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

  9. Don Harvey

    Swede Risberg

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Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine
Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-14
Out the door, I don't think they treated Buck Weaver fairly in this...not that they made him into a villain like a lot of biopics do, but more that it didn't seem to be the story that I grew up with, being raised in the area where this was legend. Weaver wasn't really as innocent or as guilty as they made him out to be, he was more the catalyst than anything else.

That being said, it's still a movie about a legend. My dad told me the story, my grandfather told me the story, it was party of my childhood and we Cubs fans. So, walking into this, when I was 8, I already new how it was going to ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$6,100,000.00

Revenue
$5,700,000.00

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