Eight Men Out
Summary:
Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different breed from the well-paid stars of la... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Cusack - (Buck Weaver)
Clifton James - (Charles Comiskey)
David Strathairn - (Eddie Cicotte)
Christopher Lloyd - (Bill Burns)
John Mahoney - (Kid Gleason)
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Review:
John Sayles once again does wonders with a large cast and a modest budget, convincingly re-creating 1919 Chicago and smartly offering a historical movie occupied by flesh-and-blood humans rather than historical icons. Matewan, his previous film, also told a story of labor woes, but the lines of sympathy in that film were clearer: the strik... Continue >>
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