Eight Men Out
1988 · Movie · PG · 120 min · ★ 6.9 · 79% critics
A championship baseball team is pushed to the edge by an owner who underpays and disrespects his players. When gamblers sense an opportunity, a scheme to rig the World Series spreads through the clubhouse, and suspicious reporters begin connecting the dots as the story turns into a national scandal.
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Details
- Years
- 1988
- Release date
- 1988-09-02
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 79/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (271 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, fact-based sports scandal drama about money and integrity, even if you’re not a baseball fan; Not for you if you dislike large casts or dense plotting.
Pros: gripping true-crime sports story; strong ensemble performances; vivid period atmosphere | Cons: many characters to track; motives feel underexplored; some hokey moments
Themes
- sports
- baseball
- historical figure
Cast & crew
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
Directed by John Sayles