| Eight Men Out Starring: John Cusak, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney Rated: PG Ships: Check Inventory Run Time: 120 min. Released: 1988, MGM Director: John Sayles Stock: 78316D1 Format: DVD Region#1 Number of Discs: 1 Synopsis: This movie is about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal -- certainly one of the saddest chapters in the annals of professional sports. Buck Weaver (Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Sheen) 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 moneymaking 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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