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.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 7 wins & 13 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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,
21 Mar 2007
fresh:
The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.
– Michael Booth,
Denver Post,
3 Nov 2007
rotten:
Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
16 Mar 2011
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,
20 Mar 2013
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.