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A little-known chapter of American labor history is brought vividly to life in this period drama from writer-director John Sayles. It's a fictional story about labor wars among West Virginia coal miners during the 1920's, but every detail is so right that the film has the unmistakable ring of truth. The tension begins when the Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, West Virginia, announces a ...

Manufacturer: Evergreen Ent
Starring: Jace Alexander, Tom Carlin, Gordon Clapp, Chris Cooper, Joe Grifasi

Director John Sayles did the unthinkable and managed to sum up all the problems of urban life in one beautifully assembled jigsaw puzzle of a film. Combining characters from across all strata of one New Jersey city, he makes it clear that old-boy politics, corruption, and urban rage form an interlocking cage that seems to keep hope for the future locked away from our grasp. At heart, it's a story ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Jace Alexander, Angela Bassett, Chris Cooper, Anthony John Denison, Frankie Faison

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. 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. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp, John Cusack, James Desmond, Richard Edson

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Vestron
Starring: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Vasek Simek, Thomas R. Voth, Jace Alexander
Directed By: Barry Primus

Director John Sayles did the unthinkable and managed to sum up all the problems of urban life in one beautifully assembled jigsaw puzzle of a film. Combining characters from across all strata of one New Jersey city, he makes it clear that old-boy politics, corruption, and urban rage form an interlocking cage that seems to keep hope for the future locked away from our grasp. At heart, it's a story ...

Starring: Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Joe Morton
Directed By: John Sayles

Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gil Bellows, Kevin Berve, Michael Bowen, Rory Cochrane

Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gil Bellows, Kevin Berve, Michael Bowen, Rory Cochrane

Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gil Bellows, Kevin Berve, Michael Bowen, Rory Cochrane

Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gil Bellows, Kevin Berve, Michael Bowen, Rory Cochrane

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. 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. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of ...

Manufacturer: Orion Studios
Starring: Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp, John Cusack, James Desmond, Richard Edson