Eight Men Out

Format:

Video disc

Title:

Eight Men Out

Uniform Title:

Eight men out (Motion picture)

ISBN:

9780792849476

Publication:

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Contemporary classics (Culver City, Calif.)

General Note:

Widescreen.

Based on the book by Eliot Asinof.

Special features: Original theatrical trailer.

Summary:

Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.

Reading Level:

Rated PG.

Conference Subject:

World Series (Baseball) -- (1919) -- Drama.

World Series (Baseball)

Subject(s):

Baseball -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- Drama.

Baseball -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

United States

Added Author:

Cusack, John, 1966-

James, Clifton, 1920-2017

Lerner, Michael, 1941-2023

Lloyd, Christopher, 1938-

Sheen, Charlie

Strathairn, David

Sweeney, D. B. (Daniel Bernard), 1961-

Asinof, Eliot, 1919-2008 Eight men out.

Added Corporate Author:

Orion Pictures.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	DVD Eight	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Newberg Public Library	DRAMA EIGHT	Searching... Unknown

Summary

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. Based on Eliot Asinof's book.

Author Notes

Charlie Sheen was born in New York City on September 3, 1965. His birth name is Carlos Irwin Estevez; he is the son of actor Martin Sheen. In 1974 he picked up the stage name of Charlie Sheen when he made his debut in a film called The Execution of Private Slovik which starred his father.

Sheen later starred in two films directed by Oliver Stone, Platoon in 1986 and Wall Street in 1987 (with his father, Martin Sheen, playing the role of the character's father). In 1994 he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002 Sheen won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television series for Spin City. He has been nominated for Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for his role in the TV sitcom, Two and a Half Men.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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