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Field of Dreams (1989)

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Reviews Counted:44

Fresh:40

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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Aug 16, 2009

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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]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
06/19/09
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

One of the best films of the 80s

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08/17/08
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

That rare thing, a poignant movie which manages to drain the tear ducts without ever resorting to cheap manipulation or clichéd sentiment.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
08/01/08
Channel 4 Film
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The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
11/03/07
Denver Post
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A rare choke-up movie for guys and one of 1989's biggest hits.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
03/21/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/21/07
Variety
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The conception is sentimental, but the storytelling remains assured and effective.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/21/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Pure magic.

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01/26/06
Time Out
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No review available.

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12/05/05
Cole Smithey
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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

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06/29/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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The best baseball film of all time.

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06/18/05
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
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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.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
06/10/05
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

No review available.

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04/29/05
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

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03/13/05
Eric D. Snider
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01/24/05
Michael E. Grost
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No review available.

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11/19/04
Robin Clifford
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Robinson's whimsical sports saga is nostalgically engaging...guaranteed to load the bases with sentimentality

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06/23/04
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Anyone who loves their father or baseball -- or both -- will find it difficult -- no, impossible -- to resist this hokey, wonderful film.

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06/21/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Say what you want about Kevin Costner, but you can’t say he never played Jesus Christ.

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04/15/04
Mark Athitakis
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11/14/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
 
 
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