Eight Men Out (Blu-ray) PG
When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Olive
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:
Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
Eight Men Out never gathers much authority; the old themes have been hung on a rickety structure that constantly threatens to collapse.
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Chicago Tribune
...The actor are, enjoyably, given the freedom to flesh out their characters...
Total Film
Unfortunately, the movie's didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series.
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Philadelphia Daily News
It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony.
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Los Angeles Times
...You come out of OUT with a solid grasp of how eight members of the Chicago White Sox were enticed to throw the 1919 World Series...
USA Today
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a sad and compelling piece that is totally convincing and doesn't require a knowledge of baseball.
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Radio 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.
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- Sales Rank: 50,061
- UPC: 887090113205
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