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Field of Dreams
Son of devoted baseball fan, Ray Kinsella normal farmer lives with his family in their lowa farm. One day he hears voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his fields . However the expected difficult financial consequences and his skeptical wife doesn't agree him at first but he follows these ethereal messages. His brother advises to replant his field to avoid bankrupt through his crisis the ethereal voice helped him to ease his pain.
27 September 1917, Provo, Utah, USA
24 January 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
9 September 1943, Gary, Indiana, USA
28 December 1918
27 July 1910, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 July 1963, Syracuse, New York, USA
3 February 1961
29 December 1923, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 October 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 December 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
12 June 1957, Lansing, Michigan, USA
20 July 1953, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
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.
May 06, 2014
Alden's script goes from charming to preposterous to preachy.
May 06, 2014
Rightfully a ballgame classic, this is sentimental nonsense, sure, but charmingly so.
November 03, 2007
The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.
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].
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.
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.
September 04, 2015
... view baseball as much a business as a sport and can't imagine getting gushy over such mush.
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 ...
