Michael Sheen of David Frost in 2008's "Frost/Nixon", a film dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews of 1977. Despite appearing in the original stage production in a part written for him by Peter Morgan, Sheen was surprised to have been cast in the film: "Peter said he'd only be prepared to give the rights to someone who would cast me as Frost, which was very nice, but when the studios get their hands on something... Right up until we started filming I was prepared to be disappointed". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a "compelling, intense"
Charlie Sheen film "Eight Men Out" as outfielder Happy Felsch. Also in 1988, he appeared opposite his brother Emilio in "Young Guns" and again in 1990 in "Men at Work". In 1989, Sheen, John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estévez and Kiefer Sutherland were honored with a Bronze Wrangler for their work on the film "Young Guns". In 1990, he starred alongside his father in "Cadence" as a rebellious inmate in a military stockade and with Clint Eastwood in the buddy cop film "The Rookie". The films were directed by Martin Sheen and Eastwood, respectively. In 1992, he featured in