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What's more American than baseball? Well as this film by John Sayles shows, the answers to that question may include greed and corruption. At a time when baseball players were workingmen and not multi-millionaires, the promise of financial gain was a proposition too tempting to pass up. Based on the events surrounding the Chicago White Sox Scandal of 1919, this film throws us a curve as we learn how eight men can be out and why we should never bet on the sanctity of the our national pastime.

1988 · 1h 59m
Director John Sayles

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Eight Men Out

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What's more American than baseball? Well as this film by John Sayles shows, the answers to that question may include greed and corruption. At a time when baseball players were workingmen and not multi-millionaires, the promise of financial gain was a proposition too tempting to pass up. Based on the events surrounding the Chicago White Sox Scandal of 1919, this film throws us a curve as we learn how eight men can be out and why we should never bet on the sanctity of the our national pastime.

COMMON SENSE

A treat for baseball fans but might bore others.

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.6
Reviews 54
Fresh 47
Rotten 7

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Studio
MGM
Released
1988
Run Time
1 hr 59 min
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United States
© 1988 ORION PICTURES CORPORATION

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United States) , Arabic , Chinese, Traditional , Dutch , French (France) , Indonesian , Romanian , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish , Thai

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.