Field of Dreams
The movie follows Ray Kinsella, a novice Iowa farmer who is commanded by several messages from a disembodied voice to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. He does it, and the Chicago White Sox come.
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1972, Berkeley, California, USA
30 January 1959, Norton, Ohio, USA
3 May 1948, Wabasha, Minnesota, USA
8 January 1982, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
June 27, 2015
If you like to think of every time at bat as a new hope, if you can taste a kind of poetry along with the hot dogs they serve at the ballpark, if you like to imagine that life is meant to be good, and miracles aren't out of the question... go see [it].
May 06, 2014
This fantasy drama from director Phil Alden Robinson is a delightful blend of the blind-fate story and the more fanciful feel-good corn of Frank Capra.
March 20, 2013
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.
May 06, 2014
Alden's script goes from charming to preposterous to preachy.
March 21, 2007
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.
March 20, 2013
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.
September 04, 2015
... view baseball as much a business as a sport and can't imagine getting gushy over such mush.
November 03, 2007
The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.
May 06, 2014
Rightfully a ballgame classic, this is sentimental nonsense, sure, but charmingly so.
April 21, 2017
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 ...
May 06, 2014
Field of Dreams isn't a home run. It's more like a suicide squeeze: if it hadn't been perfectly executed, it wouldn't have worked. But as they say in baseball, a run is a run.
