Field of Dreams (1989)
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Cast
as Ray Kinsella
as Annie Kinsella
as "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
as Terence Mann
as Dr. "Moonlight" Graham
as Mark
as Karin Kinsella
as Archie Graham
as John Kinsella
as Feed Store Farmer
as Feed Store Lady
as Annie's Mother
as Dee, Mark's Wife
as Buck Weaver
as Eddie Cicotte
as Swede Risberg
as Chick Gandil
as Beulah, Angry PTA Mother
as Principal
as PTA Heckler
as PTA Heckler
as PTA Heckler
as Boston Butcher
as Boston Yenta
as Boston Pump Jockey
as Chisolm Newspaper Publisher
as Man in Bar
as Man in Bar
as Man in Bar
as Costumer
as Clean-shaven Umpire
as Clean-shaven Center Fielder
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Critic Reviews for Field of Dreams
All Critics (57) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (8) | DVD (9)
In Costner, writer-director Robinson has found the perfect player for a personal-stakes game, a guy with a leg-it-out intensity and kidlike enthusiasm. It's Costner's eye-on-the-ball exuberance that carries Dreams past its often mechanical aesthetic ...
All of this would work better if Robinson built up the reality of the town more, made the citizens a more palpable presence, as Frank Capra did in Hollywood's greatest fable-fantasy, It's a Wonderful Life.
The sentimentality, of which there is plenty, is nicely balanced by a humor of ironic pragmatism, as when Ray, having built his baseball field as a monument to human dreams, decides to charge tourists $20 a head to visit it.
Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest.
The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.
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.
Audience Reviews for Field of Dreams
The truest definition of a magical film, with great performances, one of the most beautiful scores I can remember and a touching narrative that is not about baseball as it is about going the distance and making amends with the past - and the ending is simply wonderful.
Super Reviewer
Is the film 100% perfect? No, but it's damn close. Kevin Costner leads with a powerhouse performance, being told by "the voice of god" to build something in order to have someone come. Once he realizes it is a field he must build, in order to have his most beloved player on the field, he gives himself a mission, which has him travelling across the globe, trying his best to accomplish the tasks at hand. As this is happening, the bank is about to foreclose on his home. This film really tells the incredible story of how life itself is more important than any tangible thing. The direction is brilliant, the script is wonderful, and the performances are true. I loved "Field of Dreams" from start to finish. One of my all-time favourite films revolving around sports/family!
Super Reviewer
It's delightful for what it is...but what it is is a movie about ghost baseball players that I wouldn't watch over and over again, unlike Die Hard. Once is enough :~P The beginning has a nice thrillery feel, and I enjoy how Ray's wife is happily supportive, but when it becomes a buddy road trip movie, the flimsy connections between Terence Mann and Doc Graham just don't cut the cheap ballpark mustard.
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Field of Dreams Quotes
| "Shoeless" Joe Jackson: | Is this Heaven?. |
| "Shoeless" Joe Jackson: | Is this Heaven? |
| Ray Kinsella: | No.....It's Iowa |
| Ray Kinsella: | No.....It's Iowa. |
| "Shoeless" Joe Jackson: | If you build it, he will come. |
| Annie Kinsella: | If you were married to me you would kill me in my sleep. |
| Shoeless Joe Jackson: | If you build it, he will come. |
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