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Eight Men Out (DVD, 2004)

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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.

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EAN5050070020878

eBay Product ID (ePID)30591685

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleEight Men Out

ActorChristopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, Clifton James

DirectorJohn Sayles

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageEnglish

GenreDrama, General

Run Time114 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationUnlike 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.

Movie/TV TitleEight Men Out