Eight Men Out
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
31 May 1960, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA
31 July 1953, Buffalo, New York, USA
31 October 1980, New York, USA
13 August 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 July 1919, New York City, New York, USA
5 December 1947, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
January 10, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
24 December 1959, Palo Alto, California, USA
14 November 1961, Shoreham, Long Island, New York, USA
28 December 1951, Fresno, California, USA
9 October 1942, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
9 March 1938, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
10 November 1935, Brazil, Indiana, USA
31 October 1964, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA
20 October 1922, Clayton, Illinois, USA
May 06, 2014
It's a sad and compelling piece that is totally convincing and doesn't require a knowledge of baseball.
April 19, 2013
Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal.
March 20, 2013
Sayles deftly re-creates the forces that drove men at top of their class on the diamond to take bribes: big-time crime in Chicago and heartless management in the head office.
May 06, 2014
The light shed on this dark period of sports history makes Eight Men Out essential moviegoing. But what makes it heartbreaking is watching the toll taken on champions betraying their talent on a field of honor.
March 20, 2013
Eight Men Out never gathers much authority; the old themes have been hung on a rickety structure that constantly threatens to collapse.
August 23, 2016
Aside from its moving study of greed, corruption and loss, the film provides a wonderful glimpse at life inthe post-World War I era.
March 20, 2013
In an ensemble movie like this one, an actor who grabs too much of the limelight can throw everything out of focus. The cast Sayles has assembled understands the value of teamwork.
March 20, 2013
It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony.
May 06, 2014
Unfortunately, the movie's didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series.
March 20, 2013
The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers.
August 01, 2008
Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown.
May 06, 2014
The tone of Eight Men Out is reminiscent of the droll irony of John Huston's considerations of the vanity of human wishes and the corrupting power of money.
