Field of Dreams

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Summary: Don't Worry- You're not crazy
Review: I first saw this film, in the theatre, before DVD's came out. I ended up seeing it six times. At the time I thought I was loosing touch with reality, but, no, it's just that good, that poignant. I now live on a tropical island in the South Pacific, and have to special order DVD's. Field of Dreams will be my next order.

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Summary: At least I don't burn books you Nazi cow
Review: I was a school librarian for seven years. I wearied of the concerned parents wanting to unilaterally censor books from the junior high's library because of an opposing political view, cuss word, etc. My wife knew the drill. When the censor came calling, she'd have Field of Dreams in the VCR and queued up to the school board scene. "At least I don't burn books, you Nazi cow" became a family slogan.
Before being a librarian I was an ESL teacher. I liked this movie so much I typed up every word of the script with remote in hand, fast forwarding, rewinding, playing it over and over.
This is a film I can watch over and over.

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Summary: A modern film classic
Review: Some people have pointed out that in this film, Joe Jackson pitches with the opposite hand he did in real life. This character is loosely based on Joe Jackson, it is not a biography. Hollywood changes some things from time to time to in the long run make better films. This film is a classic. James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner, and Burt Lancaster are great. It is NOT a baseball movie. It is about realising your dream. It is a very well made film, and will live on as a true classic of cinema. Facts are sometimes changed to enhance a film, not because the film makers have made a mistake.

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Summary: Baseball + Metaphysics = Perfection
Review: I love baseball. Not only in its purest form is it the greatest game ever invented, it is also the only game that completely and thoroughly transcends and binds our country to past, present, and future--generation to generation.

Director Phil Alden Robinson's FIELD OF DREAMS pays homage to baseball's majestic, magical link to nostalgia. When a struggling Iowa farmer, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) begins "hearing voices" and subsequently plows under his cornfield and builds a baseball diamond, he becomes a pariah to his community--to his family. But Ray knows he's tapped into a special level of consiousness: a beautiful, soothing karma that slowly but wonderfully manifests itself throughout this incredible film. The baseball field itself becomes a portal to another world, enabling players from baseball's Golden Age to return. To play baseball. As the film draws to its dramatic, moving ending, Ray surveys his field of dreams and remarks, "This is perfect."

And it is.

Kevin Costner turns in his finest performance. Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, and the great Burt Lancaster are exceptional. But it is James Earl Jones, who plays disgruntled author Terrence Mann and eventual soul mate to Kinsella, who is the catalyst that takes this film to a higher level. And FIELD OF DREAMS goes to that level, and beyond, like a homerun leaving the upper deck. Highly, highly recommended.

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Summary: great, magical movie
Review: Don't pass this movie, it's not that much about baseball (thankfully) or heaven (thankfully again, the writer was agnoistic), those are merely just metaphores, this is a movie about dreams. I could watch this movie a millions times and not get sick of it. Amazing screen play, great cast, even Kevin Costner is tolerable... it's wonderful. This movie will reinstill the importance of dreams and paying no mind to those who can't see them. If you truly deep down believe in something and go for it that you will see your own Field of Dreams.

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Summary: Buy This Movie And Enjoy!
Review: I come from Australia so baseball does not have the same impact as it does in the USA.

However, we have a game known as cricket which, to us, has the same effect as baseball has to the USA.

I think "Field Of Dreams" is a fantastic movie as it moves the soul.

I lived on a vegetable farm as a boy (I'm 46 now) and we used to play cricket in the front yard.

Opposite the yard was a vegetable field and, at the appopriate time of the season, corn was planted.

Nothing would please me more than to have my father walk out and say "do you want to have a bowl son".

That is why this movie touches me so.

Buy it and enjoy!

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Summary: Magic!
Review: I won't do a synopsis, that's already been done. I just wanted to say that I love this movie, it is full of magic and hope. I am envious of the ability to just take off and drive across country to pursue an impulse. I love seeing the ghosts from another era come out and interact with the family. When Burt Lancaster's character comes off the field and gives up his dream for a second time, it speaks to the goodness of mankind. Except for some language, I would have no problem showing this to my kids. I now have in-laws in Iowa and Minnesota and I sure wish I could go visit the baseball diamond and am tempted to look up Chisholm when we go to visit. I'm asking for the DVD for Christmas!

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Summary: Buy this and Bull Durham
Review: This is worth buying on video or dvd, along with Bull Durham. And I also reccomend this to anybody under 17 that can't watch Kevin Costner's Bull Durham out the year before this. This should be under the great buy part (I didn't to see what was under great buy) Though I have warn that this movie was rated PG for language. And if you are a baseball fan, then this should be in your family's collection. And if you do have this movie but only on video, why don't you up grade to dvd?

Or are you to cheap to do that? But of course you might not have a dvd player yet, if not buy one, and must this your first dvd purhase. As the movie opens, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice and calls to his wife Annie (Amy Madigan). But she or thier daughter Karen (Gaby Hoffman) heard the voice that tells Ray "If you build it, he will come". So when Ray figures out that if he would built a baseball field in his corn, that Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) would come back and play baseball. Ray does, but once that starts losing thier savings, and now are on hte force to lose the house and the land. But what's wrose is that Ray, and his wife and daughter can see hte baseball players but his brother-in-law Mark (Timothy Busfield) does not, and believs that his brother-in-law and his family stare at an empty baseball field.

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Summary: A must have for any DVD collection
Review: This is one of the best baseball films that have ever been made. Its one of those films that you can watch over and over. I saw it at the movies and bought it as soon as it came out on DVD. A fantastic story, the ghosts are great. This film will make you put on a glove and go out into your backyard and play catch with your son.

I own the Region 4 version which also allows you to watch the film in Spanish or English audio (as does a lot of Region 4 DVD's), I'm not sure though if the Region 1 version offered here has Spanish audio.

In Australia many people by multiple region DVD players so it really does not matter to us where we buy our DVD's but people in the United States might like to check it out first if Spanish audio is important to you.

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Summary: Magical Movie...
Review: "If you build it, he will come" are the words heard by Ray( Kevin Costner) in the opening scene of Field of Dreams. A movie that if you love Baseball and the meaning of family, you have to see. It stars Kevin Costner, in his one of his best proformences, shows the comic and heartfelt emotion for which he is known. The movie it self is just magical in every sense of the word. It's a moving story told in a way that might surprise you( you will never look at corn the same way again). And their is a speech about Baseball, by James Earl Jones, that only he could have done. The movie also has Burt Lancaster's last proformance. My advice... just watch and get lost in a movie that will touch your heart and fill your soul. It is a great movie!!!!!