Field of Dreams [WS] [Blu-ray]

Director: Phil Alden Robinson, L.A. Puopolo

Overview

"If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final "second-chancer" turns out to be much closer to Ray. That "magical" field in Dyersville, Iowa still draws thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/26/2009
UPC:	0025192027543
Original Release:	1989
Rating:	PG
Source:	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:46:00
Sales rank:	18,673

Special Features

Deleted scenes with introductions by Phil Alden Robinson; From Father to Son: Passing Along the Pastime; Roundtable with Kevin Costner, Bret Saberhagen, George Brett and Johnny Bench; The Diamond in the Husks; Galena, IL Pinch Hits for Chisholm, MN; Field of Dreams: A Scrapbook; Bravo Special: From Page to Screen; Feature commentary with director Phil Alden Robinson and director of photography John Lindley

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Costner	Ray Kinsella
Amy Madigan	Annie Kinsella
Ray Liotta	`Shoeless' Joe Jackson
James Earl Jones	Terence Mann
Burt Lancaster	Dr. `Moonlight' Graham
Timothy Busfield	Mark
Frank Whaley	Archie Graham
Dwier Brown	John Kinsella
James Andelin	Feed Store Farmer
Mary Anne Kean	Feed Store Lady
Fern Persons	Annie's Mother
Michael Milhoan	Buck Weaver
Steve Eastin	Eddie Cicotte
Charles Hoyes	Swede Risberg
Art LaFleur	Chick Gandil
Lee Garlington	Beulah, Angry PTA Mother
Mike Nussbaum	Principal
Larry Brandenburg	PTA Heckler
Mary McDonald Gershon	PTA Heckler
Robert Kurcz	PTA Heckler
Don John Ross	Boston Butcher
Bea Fredman	Boston Yenta,Boston Yenta
Geoffrey Nauffts	Boston Pump Jockey
Anne Seymour	Chisolm Newspaper Publisher
C. George Baisi	Man in Bar
Howard Sherf	Man in Bar
Joseph Ryan	Man in Bar,Man in Bar #3
Joe Glasberg	Costumer
Brian Frankish	Clean-shaven Umpire
Gaby Hoffmann	Karin Kinsella
Jeffrey Neal Silverman	Clean-shaven Center Fielder
Kelly Coffield Park	Dee, Mark's Wife
James Horner	Composer
Mike Hodge	Additional Ballplayer
Fred Martin	Additional Ballplayer

Technical Credits

Phil Alden Robinson

W.P. Kinsella

Phil Alden Robinson	Screenwriter
Brian Frankish	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Lawrence Gordon	Producer,Producer
W.P. Kinsella	Screenwriter
Ian Bryce	Special Effects
Noah Blough	Sound Effects
Catherine Chase	Sound Effects
Lloyd Levin	Producer
Matthew Yuricich	Special Effects
Randy Peters	Stunts
Lee Grubin	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Phil Robinson's 1989 masterpiece is the definitive modern-day baseball film. Adapting a W.P. Kinsella story, Robinson magically combines baseball history and folklore with whimsical fantasy, and makes great use of all-American actor Kevin Costner. Costner is right at home playing the Iowa farmer whose backyard becomes a playground for unfulfilled wishes to come to fruition, and is ably supported by Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, and Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose performances are vital to the spirit of the film. An imaginative, intricately woven fairy tale that works on the spiritual level as well as on the practical, Field of Dreams benefits from Robinson's ability to effortlessly milk both America's love of baseball and the more poignant aspects of American mythology. As another mark of its enduring appeal, the film also permanently wedged the catch phrase, "If you build it, he will come" into the American lexicon, a lofty feat for a baseball movie.