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"If you build it, he will come." With these words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe.Supported by his wife Annie, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann, the mysterious "Doc" Graham and even the legendary "Shoeless Joe" Jackson.
"...so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted..." Caryn James, The New York Times
"...this is one for the heart, made beautifully." Empire
"...gathers graceful momentum and heads straight to the warm heart of the book..." Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail
Editor's Note
In this film that epitomizes the American love for baseball, Ray Kinsella, a struggling Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner), obeys a mysterious voice in his cornfield that tells him to replace part of his crop with a baseball diamond, resulting in the magical meeting of baseball heroes from the past, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the seven other Chicago White Sox players who were suspended for purposefully losing the 1919 World Series. Even after building the diamond, Ray continues to hear voices, and seeks the help of a hermit-like author in sorting out the mystery, which allows the confrontation of ghosts of other sorts.
Plot Summary
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.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French Dolby Digital PLus Stereo | | Deleted Scenes With Introduction By Phil Alden Robinson | | Dubbed: French | | Feature Audio Commentary With Director Phil Alden Robinson & Director Of Photography John Lindley | | Featurettes: From Father To Son - Passing Along The Pastime, Galena, IL Pinch Hits For Chisholm, MN, The Diamond In The Husks & Bravo Special: From Page To Screen | | HD-DVD & DVD Combo! Both Standard & HD-DVD Versions On One Disc | | Interactive Menus | | Roundtable Discussion With Kevin Costner, Bret Saberhagen, George Brett & Johnny Bench | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | The Field Of Dreams Scrapbook |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 12/12/2006 |
| Running Time: 106 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1989 | | Catalog ID: 31302 | | UPC: 00025193130228 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1990) | | | Grammy, James Horner, Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | | | Oscar, James Horner, Best Music, Original Score | | | Oscar, Lawrence Gordon, et. al., Best Picture | | | Oscar, Phil Alden Robinson, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Memorable Quotes| "If you build it, he will come." ---- an unearthly voice heard by Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) | | "Oh, you're from the Sixties. Get out! Go back to the past while you can!" ---- reclusive writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) | | "I am pitching to Shoeless Joe Jackson." ---- Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) | | "Do you think I'm crazy?" ---- Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to his wife Annie Kinsella (Amy Madigan) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A work so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion..." 04/21/1989 p.C8Entertainment Weekly
"...A labor of love for all concerned, and their sincerity and enthusiasm are suprisingly contagious..." -- Rating: B 07/26/1996 p.65 Los Angeles Times
"...FIELD OF DREAMS is about as heartfelt a movie as any major studio has given us recently..." 04/21/1989 p.C1 USA Today
"...Uniformly appealing acting..." 09/24/1993 p.3D Total Film
"...It's tight, gripping, and a bit moving too..." 05/01/2000 p.110 Premiere
"[T]his is a magical, moving experience, featuring a rare filmic glimpse at the serene beauty of Middle America." 07/01/2004 p.118 FilmCritic.com 7 of 10
Field of Dreams, is one of the most daring Hollywood films of the '80s. It asks us to suspend our disbelief more than any movie that doesn't feature lasers and robots, builds its plot around an esoteric era of sports history most people care nothing about, and suggests that a man who befriends ghosts and endangers his family is a hero. - Mark Athitakis
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
"Field of Dreams" will not appeal to grinches and grouches and realists. It is a delicate movie, a fragile construction of one goofy fantasy after another. But it has the courage to be about exactly what it promises. "If you build it, he will come." And he does. In a baseball movie named "The Natural," the hero seemed almost messianic. - Roger Ebert
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