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.

Cast

John Cusack

John Cusack

as Buck Weaver

Clifton James

Clifton James

as Charles Comiskey

Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner

as Arnold Rothstein

Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd

as Bill Burns

John Mahoney

John Mahoney

as Kid Gleason

Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen

as Hap Felsch

David Strathairn

David Strathairn

as Eddie Cicotte

D. B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeney

as 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

Don Harvey

Don Harvey

as Swede Risberg

Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker

as Chick Gandil

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

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 the...

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