Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out
A picture of eight baseball players of the Chicago White Sox, with one man on the center holding a baseball bat that is resting on the ground upright. In front of the picture frame, a baseball glove with a baseball and dollar bills (with a $20 bill shown). The film's taglines read "The Inside Store of how the national pastime become a national scandal." Another tagline reads "When the cheering stopped, there were Eight Men Out". The film's credits are listed below following the tagline and film titles.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Sayles
Screenplay byJohn Sayles
Based on
Eight Men Out
by Eliot Asinof
Produced bySarah Pillsbury
Starring
CinematographyRobert Richardson
Edited byJohn Tintori
Music byMason Daring
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Release date
  • September 2, 1988 (1988-09-02) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6.1 million
Box office$5.7 million

Eight Men Out is a 1988 American period sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series. Most of the movie was filmed at Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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