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Film · 1988 · Sports drama
Eight Men Out
Directed by John Sayles
1988
★ 3.3 editorial score
The 1919 World Series fix filmed as a labor dispute rather than a scandal: John Sayles shows eight underpaid White Sox taking money from gamblers, and an owner who pays them nothing.
“'Eight Men Out'' is the story of the 1919 World Series-fixing scheme that shattered the faith of this boy and so many others. As such, it's much more than a film about baseball. It's an amazingly full and heartbreaking vision of the dreams, aspirations and disillusionments of a nation, as filtered through its national pastime.”
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1988Depicts 1910s
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