When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on 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.
$6,100,000
$5,700,000
September 2, 1988
Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
78 people
John Cusack
Buck Weaver
Acting
Clifton James
Charles Comiskey
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Michael Lerner
Arnold Rothstein
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Christopher Lloyd
Bill Burns
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John Mahoney
Kid Gleason
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Charlie Sheen
Hap Felsch
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David Strathairn
Eddie Cicotte
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D. B. Sweeney
'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
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Don Harvey
Swede Risberg
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Michael Rooker
Chick Gandil
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Perry Lang
Fred McMullin
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James Read
Lefty Williams
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