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Field of Dreams
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.
1989 · Directed by Phil Alden Robinson · 105 min · Drama · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 18 frames
Tagline
All his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams. Then one day, his dreams came looking for him.
Plot
Ray Kinsella, his wife Annie and daughter Karin live on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa. Troubled by his broken relationship with his deceased father John, a devoted baseball fan, Ray fears growing old without achieving his dreams.
While walking through his cornfield one evening, Ray hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come"; then has a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield with the ghost of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson there. Annie agrees to convert part of their field into a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.
As Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Time passes, and as Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless Joe appears one evening. After tossing a few balls around the field, Joe asks Ray if he can bring more players and he agrees. The next day, seven more Black Sox players come. Annie's brother Mark, who cannot see the players, warns them they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land. The voice, meanwhile, urges Ray to "ease his pain."
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Crew
- Screenplay: Phil Alden Robinson
- Cinematography: John Lindley
- Edited by: Ian Crafford
- Music: James Horner
- Production design: Dennis Gassner
- Produced by: Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon
Cast
- Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella
- Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella
- Gaby Hoffmann as Karin Kinsella
- Ray Liotta as "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
- Timothy Busfield as Mark
- James Earl Jones as Terrence Mann
- Burt Lancaster as Doc "Moonlight" Graham
- Frank Whaley as Archie Graham
- Dwier Brown as John Kinsella
- James Andelin as Feed Store Farmer
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Gordon Company, Carolco Pictures
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $84,431,625
- Themes: farm, regret, based on novel or book, sports, baseball, iowa, miracle, road trip, author, doctor
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