Film

Eight Men Out

1988 · 2h · Drama · History

When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

87%

Metacritic

71

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.

John Cusack

Buck Weaver

Clifton James

Charles Comiskey

Michael Lerner

Arnold Rothstein

Christopher Lloyd

Bill Burns

John Mahoney

Kid Gleason

Charlie Sheen

Hap Felsch

David Strathairn

Eddie Cicotte

D. B. Sweeney

'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

Don Harvey

Swede Risberg

Michael Rooker

Chick Gandil

Perry Lang

Fred McMullin

James Read

Lefty Williams

Jace Alexander

Dickie Kerr

Gordon Clapp

Ray Schalk

Richard Edson

Billy Maharg

Bill Irwin

Eddie Collins

• John SaylesWriter · Director
• Eliot AsinofNovel
• Sarah PillsburyProducer
• Midge SanfordProducer
• Barbara BoyleExecutive Producer
• Jerry OffsayExecutive Producer
• Robert RichardsonDirector of Photography
• Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
• John TintoriEditor
• Barbara ShapiroCasting

Official Trailer

Release date

September 2, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h

Rated

PG

Budget

$6,100,000

Revenue

$5,700,000

Genres

Drama, History

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