Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams (1989) is a movie about a man who becomes convinced that he's supposed to construct a baseball diamond in his corn field. It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, and Frank Whaley.

Synopsis

A child of the Sixties, Ray Kinsella is convinced by his wife to move from Berkeley and live on a farm in Iowa. He's 36 years old and up to his ears in mortgage debt when he hears a mysterious voice in his cornfield. "If you build it, he will come." His wife and daughter don't hear it.

Related Topics:
Sixties - Berkeley - Iowa

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The next time he hears the voice, he also sees three visions of a baseball field illuminated for a night game, as well as a vision of Shoeless Joe Jackson. He becomes convinced that he's supposed to construct a ballfield so that Shoeless Joe, the boyhood hero of Ray's father, who was suspended from Major League Baseball following a gambling scandal, can play baseball again. His wife Annie thinks he's crazy, but also thinks that "If you really think you should do this, then you ought to do it."

Related Topics:
Shoeless Joe Jackson - Major League Baseball - Gambling scandal

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To the jeers of his farmer neighbors, Ray plows under several acres of ripening corn and constructs a full-size ball field next to his house. It looks great, but nothing happens, and a year later he's in "moderate to severe financial difficulties". He can keep the field, but that makes it "awfully hard to keep the farm" as his wife sympathetically points out. At this point, his daughter pops in to announce, "There's a man on our lawn."

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