Eight Men Out
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
26 January 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
1 January 1954, New Rochelle, New York, USA
5 December 1947, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
3 March 1962, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
6 April 1955, Jasper, Alabama, USA
August 23, 2016
Aside from its moving study of greed, corruption and loss, the film provides a wonderful glimpse at life inthe post-World War I era.
May 06, 2014
Unfortunately, the movie's didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series.
March 20, 2013
The ensemble performances are of such a uniformly high caliber that our interest in the story never wavers.
April 19, 2013
Does a fine job in getting to the details of the baseball scandal.
March 20, 2013
In an ensemble movie like this one, an actor who grabs too much of the limelight can throw everything out of focus. The cast Sayles has assembled understands the value of teamwork.
March 20, 2013
It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony.
August 01, 2008
Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown.
March 20, 2013
Eight Men Out never gathers much authority; the old themes have been hung on a rickety structure that constantly threatens to collapse.
May 06, 2014
The light shed on this dark period of sports history makes Eight Men Out essential moviegoing. But what makes it heartbreaking is watching the toll taken on champions betraying their talent on a field of honor.
March 20, 2013
Sayles deftly re-creates the forces that drove men at top of their class on the diamond to take bribes: big-time crime in Chicago and heartless management in the head office.
May 06, 2014
The tone of Eight Men Out is reminiscent of the droll irony of John Huston's considerations of the vanity of human wishes and the corrupting power of money.
May 06, 2014
It's a sad and compelling piece that is totally convincing and doesn't require a knowledge of baseball.
