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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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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.
Top critics, in their words
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.
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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