Widely regarded as a modern populist classic, the film is both a fabulist fable and a celebratory baseball movie that acknowledges scandal within the sport but also the game's transcendent ability to rise above attempts to damage its integrity. [Blu-ray]
Field of Dreams (1989)
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Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 42
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus: Field of Dreams is sentimental, but in the best way; it’s a mix of fairy tale, baseball, and family togetherness.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffman, Ray Liotta
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffman, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Frank Whaley, Dwier Brown
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Composer: James Horner
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Release:
May 26, 2009
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Region [unknown]
- Widescreen
Audio:
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
- Subtitles: English, SDH, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary with Director Phil Alden Robinson and Director of Photography John Lindley
- Deleted Scenes with Introductions by Phil Alden Robinson
Featurette:
- 1. From Father to Son: Passing Along the Pastime
- 2. Roundtable with Kevin Costner, Bret Saberhagen, George Brett and Johnny Bench
- 3. The Diamond in the Husks
- 4. Galena, IL Pinch Hits for Chisholm, MN
- 5. Field of Dreams: A Scrapbook
- 6. Bravo Special: From Page to Screen
Interactive Features:
- BD Live: Basic Download Center
Additional Products:
- Playstation 3 Controller
- User Guide
Reviews for Field of Dreams
That rare thing, a poignant movie which manages to drain the tear ducts without ever resorting to cheap manipulation or clichéd sentiment.
Field of Dreams sustains a dreamy mood in which the idea of baseball is distilled to its purest essence: a game that stands for unsullied innocence in a cruel, imperfect world.
The conception is sentimental, but the storytelling remains assured and effective.
Whether you view it as Capracorn or Capraesque would depend on your values, but there's no denying the film evokes the vastness and grandeur of Middle-America
A movie for a thorough tear-duct cleansing - the only film that makes tears stream down the cheeks of this hardened critic, and it gets me at least twice every time.
Robinson's whimsical sports saga is nostalgically engaging...guaranteed to load the bases with sentimentality
Anyone who loves their father or baseball -- or both -- will find it difficult -- no, impossible -- to resist this hokey, wonderful film.
Say what you want about Kevin Costner, but you can’t say he never played Jesus Christ.
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