Eight Men Out (1988)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:31
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Perhaps less than absorbing for non-baseball fans, but nevertheless underpinned by strong performances from the cast and John Sayles' solid direction.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn
Director: John Sayles
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Reviews for Eight Men Out
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In 1988, writer-director John Sayles made his most ambitious film to date with this intelligent chronicle of the 1919 sports scandal, cast with some of the best actors around (Strathairn, Cusack, Sweeney, Sheen). Full Review |
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Sayles' excellent film is more of a human tragedy than a sports movie -- meaning that even those with a limited knowledge of baseball should find it fascinating stuff. Full Review |
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Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown. Full Review |
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Sayles gives the film an intelligent, well-researched, nostalgic tone with plenty of quiet moments to round out the excitement. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Sayles not only depicts the circumstances that led to the fix (most notably Sox owner Charles Comiskey's legendary tightfistedness), but he also re-creates the games in great detail, making the best possible use of an athletic cast. Full Review |
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Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out. Full Review |
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Baseball fans might find this marginally absorbing; for anyone else it's as conscientious and stylistically pedestrian as Sayles's other films, and a mite overlong to boot. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Strong performances help -- especially from David Strathairn -- but it's not the great American sports drama it could have been. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
he gist of t'The situation is probably captured accurately.
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5/5 |
One of the best sports movies of all time.
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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. Full Review |
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