Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- sports
- baseball
- historical figure
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Cusack
Buck Weaver
Clifton James
Charles Comiskey
Michael Lerner
Arnold Rothstein
Christopher Lloyd
Bill Burns
- John Mahoney — Kid Gleason
- Charlie Sheen — Hap Felsch
- David Strathairn — Eddie Cicotte
- D. B. Sweeney — 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
- Don Harvey — Swede Risberg
- Michael Rooker — Chick Gandil
- Perry Lang — Fred McMullin
- James Read — Lefty Williams
- Jace Alexander — Dickie Kerr
- Gordon Clapp — Ray Schalk
- Richard Edson — Billy Maharg
- Directed
- John Sayles
- Written
- John Sayles
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 290 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
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