
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.... (Full plot summary below)
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.
Leave your thoughts about Field of Dreams.
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksField of Dreams (1989) is a fairy tale celebration of the love of baseball. |
| Tulsa WorldDennis KingIt's hard to imagine a cynicism so hardened that it won't crumble at the sight of a lush green baseball field nestled into an Iowa cornfield and at this movie's final inspiring scene of youth and innocence recaptured. |
| Movie MomNell MinowInstant baseball classic for whole family. |
| Time OutColette MaudeTogether with moments of dry humour and fine performances, the political element lends the film gravity sufficient to counterbalance any sense of whimsy. Pure magic. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergQuaint, amusing and charming little baseball parable. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe conception is sentimental, but the storytelling remains assured and effective. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in - a movie about dreams. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelCandice Russell[A] special experience, sort of an It's a Wonderful Life for the late '80s. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseWidely regarded as a modern populist classic, the film is both a fabulist fable and a celebratory baseball movie that acknowledges scandal within the sport but also the game's transcendent ability to rise above attempts to damage its integrity. [Blu-ray] |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenDespite a few wrong turns early on, the movie gathers graceful momentum and heads straight to the warm heart of the book - that fond spot located just on the safe side of sentimentality, a feel- good place that doesn't leave any feel-stupid fallout. |