Eight Men Out PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney & Charlie Sheen | |
Performer: | David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, John Sayles, Michael Rooker, Don Harvey, James Read, Perry Lang, Gordon Clapp, Bill Irwin, Richard Edson & Kevin Tighe | |
Featured: | Studs Terkel | |
Directed by | John Sayles | |
Edited by | John Tintori | |
Screenplay by | John Sayles | |
Composition by | Mason Daring | |
Produced by | Sarah Pillsbury & Midge Sanford | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Richardson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Although Eight Men Out is a serious, sober effort... I found it neither clumsy nor doctrinaire.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/4 --
The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: B --
Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aside from its moving study of greed, corruption and loss, the film provides a wonderful glimpse at life inthe post-World War I era.
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United Press International
...An amazingly full and heartbreaking vision of the dreams, aspirations and disillusionments of a nation....A home run...
New York Times
It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony.
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Los Angeles Times
...Mesmerizing....A watershed American drama that's rich and clear...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Unlike other nostalgic baseball films (THE NATURAL, FIELD OF DREAMS), director John Sayles's EIGHT MEN OUT explores one of the darkest moments in the history of the sport--1919's infamous Black Sox scandal, when eight players on the heavily favored Chicago White Sox agreed to throw the World Series. Based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book of the same name, the film investigates why the players--including the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, who many believe belongs in the Hall of Fame--would purposely lose the most important game of their lives. Set in the same time period as Sayles's MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN OUT shows how money and exploitative labor conditions destroy the purity of the game. Even though the film has no star parts and ends on a bleak note, EIGHT MEN OUT was the second Sayles film to receive financing from a major studio. Studs Terkel appears as the famous journalist Hugh Fullerton, who exposes the scandal, while Asinof and Sayles also have small roles.
Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
This "authentic, funny and very touching' (Sneak Previews) film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal scored a home run with audiences across the globe! And now, in celebration of its 20th Anniversary, this Special Edition DVD serves up a thrilling grand slam of special features including a behind-the-scenes commentary, a documentary and more! John Cusack and Charlie Sheen lead a "superb ensemble of actors" (Newsweek) as young idealistic players on the White Sox, who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a moneymaking scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix, and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favourite pastime in "the movie baseball fans have been waiting for" (USA Today).
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- Sales Rank: 128,601
- UPC: 883904102953
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