EIGHT MEN OUT

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Lianna
Baby, It's You
The Brother from Another Planet
Matewan
Eight Men Out
City of Hope
Passion Fish
The Secret of Roan Inish
Lone Star
Men with Guns (Hombres Armados)
Limbo
Sunshine State
Casa de los Babys
Silver City
Honeydripper

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 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.

--MGM Home Entertainment

Eight Men Out (1988)... mined a telling event in the American past. In 1919 the World Series, the biggest event in pro-baseball, was thrown by the machinations of big business and the syndicate. Eight Men Out chronicles the infamous "Black Sox" affair, seeing the event's implications for America's view of itself. As Sayles told Rolling Stone at the time: "It's about America growing up. The scandal was one of the straws that broke the back of Americans' perception of America and brought us into the modern age. People began realizing that everybody — including our blue-eyed boys playing pure, white games — was out for a buck and that it was time to get more realistic." If Geoff Andrew in Time Out criticised the film for its schematic confrontation between right and wrong, alongside Wall Street, Oliver Stone's hectoring 1987 critique of contemporary moral decay, also starring Charlie Sheen, Eight Men Out remains a modest nicely scripted account.

-- Richard Armstrong, Senses of Cinema