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"One of the most underrated flicks in years and best baseball movies with strong performances from it's cast & terrific direction by John Sayles."

For those who enjoyed Moneyball yet are usually not inclined to follow baseball in any other respect, this may be the film you were looking for. Character and narrative depth take precedent over sporting recreation, although key players emerge too late. More on the site.

I don't really have that much to say about the movie. It was good, but it's kind of forgettable if your not that much into baseball or the history of it.

68/B

A good sports movie, that really is more about the dynamic of a group and how peer pressure can make you do really stupid things. I liked it quite a bit, but the sentimentality of the moments with the kids annoyed me 'tell me it isn't so' a crying kid says and dozen of reporters go quiet to hear him out... seriously.

It's the closest thing to a classic you can get, without quite hitting the home-run the movie almost delivers on. It'll become a movie I revisit a bunch. Perhaps achieving that perfection, later on. Yet, it's safe to say the post-script on this film had me sitting in a mess of my own snot and tears. Couldn't recommend more to baseball fans.

You can gauge the quality of the current season by how soon one finds solace in films about baseball instead.

John Sayles' fine depiction of the 1919 Black Sox scandal stars a murderer's row of great character actors: David Strathairn, Michaels Rooker and Lerner. (Speaking of, can we please get a buddy cop show with Christopher Lloyd and Richard Edson, who play a couple of small time grifters here??) The script written by Sayles dips into treacle a few times, especially in scenes where John Cusack's Buck Weaver has heart-to-hearts with some baseball-obsessed street kids. But all in all Eight Men Out is a well-conceived, sumptuous depiction of the era and the game.

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After watching the mediocre "The Natural" not too long ago, I must say it's frusterating to try a new baseball movie out and have it feel just about the same. This time with a much more interesting story, the story of the Black Sox scandal of 1919 where the White Sox threw the World Series against the Reds, but with the same TV-movie feel.

It's rare that I would say a movie had an awful cast, after all, what does that even mean? In this case it means you've never seen more typecasting in your life. It was almost inspired at times. The structure of the film was very by-the-numbers and it never gave a good reason for me to get invested into the story. I'm surprised it has such a high rating at IMDb.

"One of the most underrated flicks in years and best baseball movies with strong performances from it's cast & terrific direction by John Sayles."

A good, classic baseball movie.

What would be a fun thing to do would be to watch it while these same events are happening on Boardwalk Empire, just switch between the two when needed.

So many great actors and, unlike the last baseball movie I watched, the stuff outside of the game was good, too.