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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.

1988 |2h 0m |  Drama, History

Videos

Cast

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John Cusack

Buck Weaver

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Clifton James

Charles Comiskey

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Michael Lerner

Arnold Rothstein

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Christopher Lloyd

Bill Burns

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John Mahoney

Kid Gleason

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Charlie Sheen

Hap Felsch

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David Strathairn

Eddie Cicotte

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D.B. Sweeney

'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

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Don Harvey

Swede Risberg

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Michael Rooker

Chick Gandil

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James Read

Lefty Williams

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Gordon Clapp

Ray Schalk

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Richard Edson

Billy Maharg

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Bill Irwin

Eddie Collins

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Michael Mantell

Abe Attell

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Kevin Tighe

Sport Sullivan

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Studs Terkel

Hugh Fullerton

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John Anderson

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

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Michael Laskin

Austrian

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Randle Mell

Ahern

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Bill Raymond

Ben Short

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Barbara Garrick

Helen Weaver

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Wendy Makkena

Kate Jackson

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Nancy Travis

Lyra Williams

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David Carpenter

Fan

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Robert E. Walsh

Writer

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Richard Lynch

Writer

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Jack Merrill

Grabiner

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Stephen Mendillo

Monk

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Charles Siebert

Reds Catcher

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Danton Stone

Hired Killer

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Brad Griffith

Reporter

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$6,100,000.00

Revenue

$5,700,000.00