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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 2303
Released: June 8, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
"If you build it he will come." With these words Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe.Now presented as a 2-disc set this all-new Anniversary Edition features unsurpassed sound and clarity with digitally remastered 5.1 audio and video plus hours of never-before-seen bonus features that extend the magic of the film.Also starring Ray Liotta James Earl Jones and Amy Madigan Field of Dreams is an extraordinary and unforgettable experience that has moved critics and audiences like no other film of its generation.Field of Dreams is a glowing tribute to all who dare to dream.System Requirements: Running Time 106 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 025192014024 Manufacturer No: 61020140
Description of Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition):
A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel Shoeless Joe. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations. It is the film that cemented Kevin Costner's status as an all-American screen star, but the story resonates far beyond Costner's handsome appeal. As just about everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician ... but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion. A meditation on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world. --Jeff Shannon
Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
FANTASTIC MOVIE 
2008-07-09 - I love Kevin Costner in any of his movies, I have seen them all and haven't found a bad one yet. He is a great actor and I also think he is a very good director. "Field of dreams" is just another perfect movie of his can't find anything bad to say about it, loved it!
field of dreams 
2008-07-02 - Field of Dreams...was about baseball,but in a fantasy way.I really love it.Kevin Costner,Amy Madigan,Earl Jones,and the rest of the cast were real great in this movie too.It's a family movie i would highly recommened everyone to watch it.
Field Of Dreams HD DVD 
2008-06-27 - This movie started ok, remained somewhat slow thorugh the middle but had a powerful ending. It is a movie you can watch with your family. However, due to the lack of mental stimulation through out most of the movie, it is not a movie I can watch mutliple times. Once is enough. Therefore I give it 3 stars.
Dreams
2008-06-05 - Every one should see this movie - If you have not, you are missing out on a very good well know and well done movie. A good family movie! The newer DVD has bonus footage that tells why the movie is still going strong after nearly 10 years. Let your iminagination go and see what you can dream of - Maybe it will come true for you if you let your dreams guide you.
Sick to my stomach 
2008-06-01 - I love baseball and have a great relationship with my father, yet found this to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
1. Ridiculously convoluted plot. It had promise for about 10 minutes then completely fell apart. Ease his pain? Seriously. What did Burt Lancaster's and James Earl Jones' characters have anything to do with the movie? Was Jones written into the plot just to spew off a few contrived lines about baseball? And the doctor "crossing the line" scene was a joke at best. The entire point of the plot was to somehow lead to father and son playing catch. Wow, what a creative, inspiring ending.
2. OVERACTING. Kevin Costner is a marginal actor at best, and the whiny frustrated farmer role is laughable in this movie. Should I laugh when he gets "frustrated" with the voice? And Busfield's rant/shake the daughter scene was pathetic. And the "Oh my god! Where did these ballplayers suddenly come from?" expression was priceless.
3. Cheesy. Tries way, way too hard to force the father-son-baseball-bonding theme down everyone's throat. If Jones or Costner or the doctor would have spouted off one more sappy line about baseball, I might have thrown up. But I guess some people like the overdramatic garbage.
After watching this movie with my dad, I felt bonded to him in that we were both cracking up laughing at just how bad the movie turned out to be. I had high hopes after Bull Durham, but they were shot down about 20 minutes into this stinker.
"Ease his pain." That just about sums it up.
