EIGHT MEN OUT (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Drama, Sports
• Plot: John Cusack (Con Air) and Charlie Sheen (Major League) lead a 'superb ensemble of actors' (Newsweek) delivering 'striking performances' (The New York Times) in this 'mesmerizing story' (Los Angeles Times) about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal — certainly one of the saddest chapters in the annals of professional sports.; ; Buck Weaver (Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Sheen) 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 of 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.
• Cast: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Rooker, Don Harvey, James Read, Perry Lang, Gordon Clapp, Jace Alexander, Bill Irwin, Richard Edson, Kevin Tighe, Michael Mantell, John Anderson, Studs Terkel, James Desmond, John Sayles, Eliot Asinof, Clyde Bassett, John D. Craig, Michael Laskin, Randle Mell, Robert Motz, Bill Raymond, Barbara Garrick, Wendy Makkena, Maggie Renzi, Nancy Travis, Tay Strathairn, Jesse Vincent, Jack George, Tom Surber, Tom Ledcke, David Carpenter, Bert Hatch, Jerry Brent, Bruce Schumacher, Robert Walsh, Matthew Harrington, Richard Lynch, Gary Williams, Michael Harris, Ken Berry, David Rice, Jack Merrill, Josh Thompson, Julie Whitney, Dana Roi, Philip Murphy, Stephen Mendillo, J. Dennis Newman, Charles Siebert, Jim Martindale, Bill Jennings, David Hinman, Danton Stone, Patrick Grant, Tim Laughter, Brad Armacost, Jim Stark, Brad Griffith, Steve Salge, Dick Cusack, Eaton Randles, Max Chiddester, Rich Komenich, Patrick Brown, John Griesemer, Charles Yankoglu, Michael B. Preston, John E. Blazier, Luther Creek, Jack Randall Earles, Sam Gaw, Wayne Pyle, Bill Reeves, Keith Schrader, Aaron Weiler, Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford, Robert Richardson, John Tintori, Mason Daring
• Director: John Sayles
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Orion Pictures Corporation, United Artists
• Media Format: Movie