Field of Dreams (1989)

Redundant and unnecessary.

Let's be realistic.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Blistering performances.

Huge baseball fan but this movie, which is constantly called a classic, is rather slow and boring

Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerThe acting throughout the film is great. Kevin Costner does a great job at portraying a man in need of answers. James Earl Jones also does a fantastic job. His character is likable and his end scene put a childlike smile on my face. Ray Liotta gives a great performance as well. Amy Madigan, who plays Costner's wife, does a good job but can be annoying at times. Even though this movie is old, it still holds up in regards to the acting. The Iowa landscape is beautiful. The corn fields and baseball fields are amazing to look at.The story is heartfelt, enjoyable, and well paced. Towards the end, I felt a sort of childlike happiness and joy that only a few films have given me. The ending is very emotional and touching. The film does leave some unanswered questions though. Most notably: Where did the "voice" come from? And what is beyond the corn field?Pros: Great performances by Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Ray Liotta, amazing scenery, heartfelt and touching story, and a very emotional endingCons: Amy Madigan's character is sometimes annoying and some unanswered plot questionsOverall Rating: 8.5P.S. This film is an American classic. It has baseball, family, and childlike innocence and joy. It is a must watch for baseball and heartfelt movie fans.

This is a drama film in which Kevin Costner plays a farmer who cuts down his cornfield in order to summon the ghosts of baseball players of 1919. This film makes no sense. I don't know why this nonsense is popular. Why would a farmer destroy his crops to build a baseball field in the middle of nowhere, believing that it would bring back to life dead baseball players? Why is he obsessed with players who stopped playing long before he was born? What good could bringing their ghosts (who only he can see) to his Iowa farm do?

I loved this movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was 9 and like so many other Kevin Costner movies, it became one of my all time favorites.I can still remember seeing it in the theater.It's right up there with "Bull Durham," only it seems like it's on the far opposite of the coin. "Bull Durham" took baseball and more specifically baseball fans and poked fun at us. It teased us for loving the game the same way that older sibling or favorite uncle that you looked up to teased you about your own eccentricities. Never in a mean or hostile way, but in a familial closeness."Field of Dreams" takes the opposite stance. Instead of lovingly mocking us for loving baseball, it tells the audience why fans can make the sport an obsession.It illustrates how it brings families together. How a simple game of catch creates a father and son bond. It shows its audience how the game transcends generations and, in a way, shows people why freaks like me rent apartments across the street from softball diamonds, just so, when the weather's warm, we can walk across the street and watch a game...or, when we are stuck inside working, we can crack open a window and listen to the familiar and comforting sounds.Even if you don't play there is something almost...I don't know--would angelic be strong enough?--magical? wonderful? there is something to that sound a bad makes when it hits a ball. Especially when it's followed by yells and cheers.It's something that you don't get when you go to Wrigley Field or when you watch the game on television. But you play a game, you go to the cages, you start hitting up your local high school games and you get to hear that clink, the cheers, that rush of excitement that makes you stand up in your seat and start yelling too."Field of Dreams" explains all of that, right down to the few stolen hours between twilight and darkness children get to enjoy when they sneak to the backyard after dinner and play catch until they can't see the ball any more.And right there, to go along with it, the movie is about magic too.It's almost as good as the game itself.