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.
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
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.
Director and cast
- Phil Alden Robinson Director
- Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella
- James Earl Jones as Terrence Mann
- Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella
- Timothy Busfield as Mark
- Ray Liotta as "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
- Burt Lancaster as Doc "Moonlight" Graham
- Frank Whaley as Archie Graham
- Dwier Brown as John Kinsella
- Lee Garlington as Beulah Gasnick
- Gaby Hoffmann as Karin Kinsella
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
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