Eight Men Out (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Brad Armacost, David Carpenter, Eliot Asinof, Jace Alexander, Ken BerryBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Composer: Mason K. Daring
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Eight Men Out (20th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: 8 Men Out is one of the best sports movie of all time and a 5 star DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
There are a lot of great sports movies and I know I might receive some backlash for this but I look at eight men out as the greatest sports movie of all time in my opinion. This is from my point of view because I can relate to the movie more from the gambling aspect. I first really like this movie because it is based on a true story and the one of the biggest sports scandals in history. There is a lot of drama in eight men out and it goes to show you if others are not looking out for you don't mind not looking out for them and stabbing them in the back. That's exactly what the white socks did and cost there team and owner the World Series. Even when the socks tried to get out of the bet they were too far in with the bookies and they already made a commitment and if they turned back now people would be killed. 8 Men Out is filled with up and down moments that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you pick up this DVD you will not be disappointed.
Summary of Eight Men Out (20th Anniversary Edition)
John Cusack (Con Air) and Charlie Sheen (Major League) lead a "superb ensemble of actors" (Newsweek) delivering "striking performances" (The New York Times) in this "mesmerizing story" (Los Angeles Times) about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal, certainly one of the saddest chapters in the annals of professional sports. Buck Weaver (Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Sheen) are young idealistic players with 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.Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men Out illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988?film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. And what a story. Although many know about the "Black Sox," made famous--again--in the 1989 hit film Field of Dreams, the details of the saga are far less known. The center of Dreams, Shoeless Joe Jackson (portrayed correctly by D.B.?Sweeney as illiterate and left-handed in Eight), is not the core of this film; it's ace pitcher Eddie Cicotte (Sayles favorite David Strathairn), who took the money, and third baseman Buck Weaver (John Cusack), who did not. The film fits nicely into Sayles's (Lone Star) strong suit: the ensemble drama. We are introduced to bickering owners, famous crooks, high-minded judges, lowlife gangsters, investigative reporters (played by Studs Terkel and Sayles himself), and, most of all, players who are at the breaking point when it comes to low salaries and degrading rewards. While some may feel the film is not as visceral as it should be, there is a great amount of verisimilitude when watching finely tuned athletes telling their bodies to play poorly--heartbreak on the nation's diamond. Beautifully detailed (like Sayles's previous labor-drama, Matewan), Eight Men Out gives us powerful lessons in which everyone lost: players, gamblers, and especially the fans who love the game. --Doug Thomas
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