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This baseball fantasy features a non-native Iowan farner (Kevin Costner)who, when he hears a voice from the sky, plows up part of his corn crop to construct a major league baseball field to lure back "Shoeless Joe Jackson" (Ray Liotta) and the rest of the infamous 1919 Chicggo White Sox who were banned from the game for throwing the World Series.Along the way Costner hooks up with James Earl Jones, a disgruntled
former sixties radical writer and, later, a retired doctor (Burt Lancaster) who had played one single major league inning prior to his taking up medicine.An enjoyable film, not as deep as "The Natural". It has grown on me over the years as I had resisted the early hoopla at first.
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One of my more favorite films, and one of my earliest DVD purchases; I'm trying hard not to buy the new edition, but I know the picture has been substantially improved."Not as deep as The Natural": While I like The Natural overall, I find it more forced and heavyhanded than FoD, and in some ways disjointed. I also, frankly, don't like whatever "deepness" there's supposed to be: I've watched the movie many times, but still feel like I'm missing half of the allegory or whatever it's supposed to be.
John K.
One scene in FOD tears me up every time..."hey, Dad, wanna have a catch?"I just turned 50 years old last week, and my Dad has been dead now for 27 years...I'd give ANTHING to throw a baseball around with him for five minutes.
Is this Costner best film? I know he won the accolades for Dances with Wolves, and I love him in Bull Durham, but imo, FOD will be the one that will LAST.
regards,
Gary
Yeah I'd agree that this is Costner's best film...I also think it's better than the Natural.Field of Dreams is less about baseball - not really a beaseball movie at all - it's about relationship, opportubnities missed, and regret. It's one of the best American films.
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