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Eight Men Out
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 C... 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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