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Field of Dreams

All his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams. Then one day, his dreams came looking for him.

1989 · 1h 45m · PG Drama, Fantasy
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson

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Overview

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

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87%
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Rotten

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.

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

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.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh

The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.

Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh

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.

Variety Staff, Variety

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