Moon Over Parador/Eight Men Out/Running on Empty/The Thin Blue Line/Crossing Delancey

One of the most under-apreciated films of the last 25 years

Bush Stadium - 1501 W. 16th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham (1988)

Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen in Major League (1989)

Joe Morton in The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

John Cusack, Curtis Armstrong, Diane Franklin, Yuji Okumoto, Dan Schneider, and Amanda Wyss in Better Off Dead (1985)

John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, Don Harvey, James Read, Perry Lang, and Michael Rooker in Eight Men Out (1988)

Yeah, that's what Custer said when the Indians took the field.

John Cusack and D.B. Sweeney in Eight Men Out (1988)

John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, and Michael Rooker in Eight Men Out (1988)

John Cusack and Barbara Garrick in Eight Men Out (1988)

Christopher Lloyd and Richard Edson in Eight Men Out (1988)

Charlie Sheen and James Read in Eight Men Out (1988)

John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, and D.B. Sweeney in Eight Men Out (1988)

Charlie Sheen and Michael Rooker in Eight Men Out (1988)

John Cusack

Clifton James

Jace Alexander

Eliot Asinof

John Sayles

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

Eight Men Out

the antidote to Field of Dreams

When the team that couldn&apos;t be beat threw the World Series in 1919 they did more than deliberately lose a few baseball games; they corrupted the National Pastime and ushered the sport out of its age of innocence. Writer director John Sayles succeeds in showing exactly how and why eight players on the best team in baseball set in motion what had to be one of the most poorly conceived, organized and executed conspiracies in the whole history of graft, and in his usual role as a champion of the working class portrays the guilty players as victims of money-grubbing corporate exploitation (represented both by team management and organized crime).

But it&apos;s all the cynical wheeling and dealing behind the Black Sox scandal which make the film so fascinating. The story might have been unbelievable if it wasn&apos;t entirely true, but like any aspect of real life the details are messy and inconclusive. Most of the film recounts the mechanics of the fix; events during the subsequent exposure and trial are telescoped too quickly into the final forty minutes or so, which makes sense: in any conspiracy the crime is always more interesting than the punishment.

It helps to be at least slightly familiar with the huge cast of characters involved: players, gamblers, reporters and so forth. A few scenes have been added for dramatic unity, and others were abbreviated to maintain a consistent pace, but all the facts are there, and Sayles manages to pull them all together in an entertaining history lesson from our collective adolescence, re-creating that fateful moment when the boys of summer grew up for good.

Official Trailer

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When the team that couldn't be beat threw the World Series in 1919 they did more than deliberately lose a few baseball games; they corrupted the National Pastime and ushered the sport out of its age of innocence. Writer director John Sayles succeeds in showing exactly how and why eight players on the best team in baseball set in motion what had to be one of the most poorly conceived, organized and executed conspiracies in the whole history of graft, and in his usual role as a champion of the working class portrays the guilty players as victims of money-grubbing corporate exploitation (represented both by team management and organized crime).

But it's all the cynical wheeling and dealing behind the Black Sox scandal which make the film so fascinating. The story might have been unbelievable if it wasn't entirely true, but like any aspect of real life the details are messy and inconclusive. Most of the film recounts the mechanics of the fix; events during the subsequent exposure and trial are telescoped too quickly into the final forty minutes or so, which makes sense: in any conspiracy the crime is always more interesting than the punishment.

It helps to be at least slightly familiar with the huge cast of characters involved: players, gamblers, reporters and so forth. A few scenes have been added for dramatic unity, and others were abbreviated to maintain a consistent pace, but all the facts are there, and Sayles manages to pull them all together in an entertaining history lesson from our collective adolescence, re-creating that fateful moment when the boys of summer grew up for good.

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