Stars: Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Christopher Lloyd, John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney

Director: John Sayles

Summary: Anxious to 'burn' the team's owner whose skinflint tactics insult their talent, eight players of the Chicago 'Black Sox' conspire with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Baseball Series.

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 favoured 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 labour 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.

WIN DVDs by rating this DVD

Average User Rating:

WIN DVDS by being amongst the first to review this DVD. Reviewing DVDs earns you bonus entries and lets you WIN DVDs!Please login before reviewing this DVD. If you're a new user, register for free and enter to WIN FREE DVDs!

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1988
Release Date:	June 7, 2004
Runtime:	114 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	10001087
Keywords:	Out, Men, General, Eight, Drama
Genre:	Drama