Word: cusack
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Cambridge's water supply has a history of contamination, according to Water Superintendant James J. Cusack, Jr. The level of sodium in city water is 43 milligrams per liter--more than double the 20 milligrams per liter limit set by state...
...this conspiring occurs at a time when baseball was Chicago's only religion. When kids would worship the hitting of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...
...became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...
...Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced to bit-player status in its own drama...
...performances of Meredith Salenger as Natty and John Cusack as Harry are good enough to make the climaxes of the movie poignant, even for an older audience. We can feel the joy of the two youngsters as they escape from yet another pitfall. Even the wolf aptly shows its dilemma between going back to the pack and continuing its journey with Natty, although I think the Academy Awards may overlook the performance...