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A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema.
It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel Shoeless Joe. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations.
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"A story of redemption and faith, in the tradition of the best Hollywood fantasies, with moments that are pure magic." - Leonard Maltin in Movie and Video Guide (1998)
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Kevin Costner
plays a former Sixties idealist who runs a farm in Iowa with
his wife and young daughter. After hearing a mysterious, heavenly
voice one day, Costner turns one of his cornfields into a baseball
diamond.
Of course, everyone
thinks he's crazy, but in time "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
and other ghostly outcasts, who had previously languished in
a sort of baseball purgatory, show up to play the game they still
love. Soon men from all over the country join them at this baseball
shrine, some just to play with the greats, others to mend the
broken relationships they had with their fathers, but all are
trying to get back in touch with simpler times through the purity
of America's grandest game.
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As just about
everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella,
who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will
come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the
middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the
wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger
and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded.
The idealistic
farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence
is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing
on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person
of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster),
an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory
for a dignified life as a small-town physician, but what all
of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt
conclusion.
A meditation
on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic
to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting
audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production
has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world.
Universal's widescreen Collector's Edition DVD is a real treat,
offering extensive production notes, full-length commentary by
writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, and the extensive behind-the-scenes
documentary The Making of Field of Dreams.
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Field
of Dreams
Format: DVD.
Rating: 
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson.
Year of Release: 1989.
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