![]() ![]() We are introduced to bickering owners, famous crooks, high-minded judges, lowlife gangsters, investigative reporters (played by Studs Terkel and Sayles himself), and, most of all, players who are at the breaking point when it comes to low salaries and degrading rewards. The film fits nicely into Sayles's (Lone Star) strong suit: the ensemble drama. Sweeney as illiterate and left-handed in Eight), is not the core of this film it's ace pitcher Eddie Cicotte (Sayles favorite David Strathairn), who took the money, and third baseman Buck Weaver (John Cusack), who did not. The center of Dreams, Shoeless Joe Jackson (portrayed correctly by D.B. Although many know about the "Black Sox," made famous-again-in the 1989 hit film Field of Dreams, the details of the saga are far less known. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men Out illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. ![]()
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