SummaryA dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Directed By:John Sayles
Written By:Eliot Asinof, John Sayles
Eight Men Out
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It's a masterpiece of exposition and compression. An allegorical examination of a transitional period in U.S. history. [01 Sept 1988]
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As he spins his mesmerizing story of the fixing of the 1919 World Series, John Sayles moves to a new level of dexterity as a writer-director.
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Jun 20, 2021
8
A lot to love for baseball fans, but still a decently entertaining sports drama for casual filmgoers, I enjoyed it
Aug 12, 2019
8
100 years ago, in 1919,baseball was an national **** baseball fans have to remember the worst world series by the **** you are an baseball fan, you must watch the **** must learn this scandal and say" No more Blacksox".
We have the **** need to ask Google about this scandal.
80
The film is sympathetic to the underpaid players, but doesn’t shirk away from their crime. Cusack is particularly good as the player whose faith in his friends and baseball was destroyed while his life was torn asunder by circumstance.
80
For anyone who appreciates artistic integrity and is interested in genuinely independent films, the prolific and highly personal work of John Sayles is essential viewing.
70
Given the inevitably knotty plotting, the message is oddly unrevealing, although the film features more than enough intelligently, wittily scripted moments to remain a fascinating insight into a crucial episode in the souring of that old American Dream.
50
Baseball fans might find this marginally absorbing; for anyone else it's as conscientious and stylistically pedestrian as director John Sayles's other films, and a mite overlong to boot.
40
Eight Men Out lacks either the spacious simplicity of legend or the patient detailing of realism. And Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown.
Jun 20, 2017
6
I wish this movie was an hour longer. I wanted more of the history, more about each player. I love the cast, and the period details are solid, but it felt a little too compressed to me.
