115 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Starring Frank Whaley, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster, Gaby Hoffman, Dwier Brown, Timothy Busfield, Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta
In the film "Field of Dreams", we are taken on a journey to fulfill those dreams of having second chances to make things right. "Field of Dreams" is based on the novel, Shoeless Joe, by W. P. Kinsella. In the movie Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field telling him, "If you build it, he will come." Ray then plows under his Iowa cornfield to build a baseball field that will call back Shoeless Joe Jackson and other major league baseball players of the Chicago White Sox who were banned for throwing the 1919 World Series. Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. At first, Ray was highly skeptical, but eventually he realized the significance of his obscure calling. After the death of his father, John Kinsella, Ray was overcome with a sense of guilt and emptiness due to the fact that the horrible conflict with his father would never be resolved. Completing his journey allowed him to make amends with his deceased father and alleviate himself of the eternal burden of never forgiving his father or being forgiven himself for the painful words they had exchanged.
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In the film "Field of Dreams", we are taken on a journey to fulfill those dreams of having second chances to make things right. "Field of Dreams" is based on the novel, Shoeless Joe, by W. P. Kinsella. In the movie Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field telling him, "If you build it, he will come." Ray then plows under his Iowa cornfield to build a baseball field that will call back Shoeless Joe Jackson and other major league baseball players of the Chicago White Sox who were banned for throwing the 1919 World Series. Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. At first, Ray was highly skeptical, but eventually he realized the significance of his obscure calling. After the death of his father, John Kinsella, Ray was overcome with a sense of guilt and emptiness due to the fact that the horrible conflict with his father would never be resolved. Completing his journey allowed him to make amends with his deceased father and alleviate himself of the eternal burden of never forgiving his father or being forgiven himself for the painful words they had exchanged.