Eight Men Out

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

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.

• Release date
• September 2, 1988
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• John Sayles

Cast

John Cusack Buck Weaver Clifton James Charles Comiskey Michael Lerner Arnold Rothstein Christopher Lloyd Bill Burns John Mahoney Kid Gleason Charlie Sheen Hap Felsch David Strathairn Eddie Cicotte D. B. Sweeney 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson