The read
Scores higher than 80% of the 1,345 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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 that 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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Metacritic71/100
290 audience votes
Key crew
- Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
- John SaylesWriter
- John SaylesDirector
Cast
- John CusackBuck Weaver
- Clifton JamesCharles Comiskey
- Michael LernerArnold Rothstein
- Christopher LloydBill Burns
- John MahoneyKid Gleason
- Charlie SheenHap Felsch
- David StrathairnEddie Cicotte
- D. B. Sweeney'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
- Don HarveySwede Risberg
- Michael RookerChick Gandil
- Perry LangFred McMullin
- James ReadLefty Williams
Stills
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1988
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