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		List Price: $19.98		Label: Universal Studios Salesrank: 12519 Released: December 12, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: HD DVD

Editorial Review:
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

Description of Field of Dreams [HD DVD]:
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 [HD DVD] Reviews:
Awesome Movie!
2009-11-30 - This is a movie that you could watch over and over again. I love the plot behind it, and the kids even enjoy watching it. Baseball has always been a favorite with my son, ever since he was 2 (he's now 10). I would recommend this movie to friends and family.

Great Deal
2009-11-25 - Delivered to my home very well packaged, I am pleased with the shape it came and I watched it and the disc was in great shape

Awesome
2009-11-11 - This is one of the greatest Baseball Movie ever made. i love this film. Kevin Costner is outstanding. I Recommend it for everyone

Is this Heaven?
2009-11-07 - No, it's Iowa...What a classic movie, and it looks so much better in Blu-ray. Never gets old.

I'm glad I updated from my original edition DVD
2009-09-26 - I met Bill Kinsella in the early 80's. I had read a little bit about this little baseball book from a guy from British Columbia, and when I saw this clapped out car with vacu-formed signs touting a book called "Shoeless Joe" park near me, I popped over to say Hi. Bill Kinsella was/is a sort of scraggy looking dude, and was pretty interesting to talk to, so I walked with him to Elliott Bay Books, and bought a copy, which Kinsella duly signed. He re-autographed it more personally at a later reading after I told him I had called Larry King's radio show, and highly recommended it.
In spring of '89 I was walking past a theatre & saw a poster for a movie called "Field Of Dreams", which I had never heard of, but then I saw it had Kevin Costner, who I'd liked in Silverado and envied in No Way Out for a little backseat scene with Sean Young. Then I noticed in the fine print "Based on the novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella". I immediately bought a ticket for the next showing, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and was all choked up at the ending. I did miss many aspects of the novel, such as the replacement of J. D. Salinger by a character called Terrence Mann(well-played by James Earl Jones), and the elimination of characters of the hero's brother, and "The World's Oldest Living Chicago Cub", Eddie "Kid" Scissons, but still thought it was well done. After I got out of the movie, I called a lady friend who I had turned on to Shoeless Joe & told her about it, and "Field Of Dreams" became the second movie I've ever watched twice in one day.(the other was Brazil ...how did that happen??)
When DVD's came out, "Field Of Dreams" was one of the first I bought, but until I bought this 2-disc set, I probably hadn't watched it in 5 or 6 years.
When my new copy arrived, I immediately went to the 2nd disc & the Extras. The first extra I watched was the "From Page To Screen" feature from The Bravo Channel which did little more than piss me off: Anna Geddes, who wrote & directed this knew or cared nothing about the book, or its genesis: the book Shoeless Joe was derived from a short story, the title story from Kinsella's Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa. I also had a problem with the way the narrator of "From Page To Screen" went on and on about "an American classic", but didn't mention the facts that Kinsella is Canadian, or that he lived in Iowa while attending the Writer's Program at the University Of Iowa. Of course, The Bravo Channel has become a joke like A&E, living off of "Reality" TV instead of stressing quality content.
After my disgust with From Page To Screen, I was pretty much delighted with all the other DVD Extras: a round table discussion with Costner and some ex-MLB stars was fun; the deleted scenes were OK, with only one that I thought should have been retained in the film; I enjoyed the visit to Galena, Illinois, which served as Chisholm, Minnesota in the movie; the Look Inside "Field Of Dreams" was well done, and I realized that the director & producers really had a passion for the book and the film, and I had never, ever heard that Bill Kinsella's original title for the book was "Dream Field"; The great bit was From Father to Son: Passing Along the Pastime, with a conversation with Dwier Brown, who played the young father of Ray Kinsella, making buying this edition TOTALLY worth it. Although it was moving when the producers of the movie told of losing their Father at "a young age", Dwier Brown lost his Dad less than a month before he appeared in "Field Of Dreams" and BARELY kept it together when he talked about speaking with his Dad on the father's deathbed.
The transfer of the new edition was just fine, and one more thing, especially aimed at the reviewer who gave FOD 1-star due to his only getting 1 disc, in a 1 disc box:
When you're looking at a DVD (or a book) that has multiple editions, make sure you contact the seller either before you buy, or as soon as you buy. Confirm with the seller what you're buying: Caveat Emptor!