Eight Men Out · 1988

Eight Men Out

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

John Sayles · 120 min · United States of America

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.

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Budget

$6,100,000

Worldwide revenue

$5,700,000

Production companies

Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions

Locations

Filming

Chicago

Setting

Chicago

Locations: Wikidata · Data: TMDB / OMDb

Cast

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  John Cusack

  Buck Weaver

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  Clifton James

  Charles Comiskey

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  Michael Lerner

  Arnold Rothstein

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  Christopher Lloyd

  Bill Burns

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  John Mahoney

  Kid Gleason

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  Charlie Sheen

  Hap Felsch

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  David Strathairn

  Eddie Cicotte

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  D. B. Sweeney

  'Shoeless' Joe Jackson