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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 202310/10
Out the door, I don't think they treated Buck Weaver fairly in this...not that they made him into a villain like a lot of biopics do, but more that it didn't seem to be the story that I grew up with, being raised in the area where this was legend. Weaver wasn't really as innocent or as guilty as they made him out to be, he was more the catalyst than anything else. That being said, it's still a movie about a legend. My dad told me the story, my grandfather told me the story, it was party of my childhood and we Cubs fans. So, walking into this, when I was 8, I already new how it was going to end, all the names involved... ...and reviewing it at almost 40, it hasn't changed at all, it's still the legend Chicago baseball fans grew up with, projected on the big screen, to sit back and take in as if you were watching the cautionary tail yourself. And the thing is, it holds up to it. It holds up to the story of Shoeless Joe that inspired but the book (named after him) and the movie that would become Field of Dreams. It lives up to the stories that Grandpa and Dad told me from different points of view about where the guilt rested. It lives up to the stories of the darkest times during the
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Cast
- John CusackBuck Weaver
- Clifton JamesCharles Comiskey
- Michael LernerArnold Rothstein
- Christopher LloydBill Burns
- John MahoneyKid Gleason
- Charlie SheenHap Felsch
- David StrathairnEddie Cicotte
- D. B. Sweeney'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
- Don HarveySwede Risberg
- Michael RookerChick Gandil
Crew
- John SaylesDirector
- John SaylesWriter
- Eliot AsinofNovel
- Robert RichardsonDirector of Photography
- Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
- John TintoriEditor
- Sarah PillsburyProducer
- Midge SanfordProducer
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