Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)

Buy This Item Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 9-1-2008     A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, <I>Field of Dreams</I> has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel <I>Shoeless Joe</I>. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations. It is the film that cemented Kevin Costner's status as an all-American screen star, but the story resonates far beyond Costner's handsome appeal. As just about everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion. A meditation on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I> Reader Reviews This movie proves realists can become dreamers...LOL This was a great movie with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta. The story starts with a Husband & wife buying a ranch to become farmers. One day as the man(Kevin Costner) is walking in his corn field checking out his corn he hears a voice say "If you build it he will come". So he calls out to his wife thinking she might have said something to him nope she didn't say anything, so he keeps on walking and all the sudden he hears it again"If you build he will come". So he starts seeing these visions of a baseball field where his corn field is, so he talks his wife into building a baseball field in the corn field. He keeps on wait and no one comes, then finally around baseball season these baseball players started showing up and playing baseball on the field and they weren't just any players they were players that had played back in the past when baseball was still a game. So The husband goes a trip to man that was a baseball player back then and was still alive. They go to a baseball game and the guy hears the voice again and his friend heard it too. Thats when the guy starts to believe, so they go try to find a another but find out he's dead, but the guy played by Kevin Costner is walking down a street and meets the guy that is supposedly Dead and he asks him to come with him, but he doesn't come. Then the way home (Kevin) and (James) find a guy hitchhiking to baseball camp, it the same guy (Kevin) talked to the night before but a younger version. So they get home and his brother in law comes over to talk to him about saling the farm to him, cause while (Kevin) was gone he bought the note on the farm. (Kevin) tells him no and the brother in law gets mad and pick his daughter and on accident drops her from the bleachers they were standing the guy that picked up on the way home was a doctor so he comes run to help the little girl. When he past the baseball diamond he became an old man he couldn't go back, but he helped save the little girl. All the sudden the bother in law sees all the players and tells him not to sell. Then they will ask (James)to come with them,the baseball players. As they're walking off (Ray) said if you build it he will come. He turns to see the catcher taking of his gear, It's his father. I rate this Movie a 10 from 1to10!!

Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 9-1-2008.

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