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Reaganfan

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I Remeber watching this movie on tv. It's such a nice movie to watch about a guy who love baseball and has a baseball field in his backyard. This film had a great cast, and I like the storyline in this movie. I give it four stars.

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Posted feb 14, 2008 2:16 am pt

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This is a good sports drama. I like comedies better, but this was entertaing and enjoyable. The movie shows how powerful a dream can be.

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Posted may 29, 2007 8:08 am pt

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Probably one of the handful of really good sports movies. All the performances are really good especially James Earl Jones, and I understand why Ray Liotta wasn't used a lot, but I would have liked to seen more of that character, but I understand....
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Probably one of the handful of really good sports movies. All the performances are really good especially James Earl Jones, and I understand why Ray Liotta wasn't used a lot, but I would have liked to seen more of that character, but I understand. It's a really good movie, if you're a baseball fan this is a must see movie. 9/10.

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Posted apr 19, 2007 9:26 am pt

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"Field of Dreams" is one of my absolute favorite sports films of all time. I just love the story and the lessons learned. Kevin Costner did a fantastic job as Ray Kinsella, who builds a baseball field on his farm because he heard...
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"Field of Dreams" is one of my absolute favorite sports films of all time. I just love the story and the lessons learned. Kevin Costner did a fantastic job as Ray Kinsella, who builds a baseball field on his farm because he heard whispers of, "If you build, they will come."

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Posted mar 5, 2007 11:30 pm pt

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The story of a man who gets one last chance something that should have done a long time ago is one of the best things about this movie. This is such a good movie.

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Posted mar 1, 2007 1:00 pm pt

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Field of Dreams is one of my favourite movies; it's perfectly cast, and wonderfully acted. The script is based on a book by WP Kinsella, who writes funny stories.

This story is about baseball, and how it is a staple of American...
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Field of Dreams is one of my favourite movies; it's perfectly cast, and wonderfully acted. The script is based on a book by WP Kinsella, who writes funny stories.

This story is about baseball, and how it is a staple of American life, even going so far as to be able to heal a man's relationship with his father even after death. That's some pretty powerful mojo, and reading it like that makes it sound hokey, but this movie (and the story) is anything but.

What it is is a wonderful story of hope and redemption. How sometimes we have to do things that we don't always understand, but with faith, things will turn out okay, and the ordinary can become extraordinary.

What I like best about this movie is that that actually happened for the people who own the corn field in real life... as Karen says in the movie, "People will come!" And they did, and do... and the two farmers who owned a corn field now have a tourist site on their hands. That just makes me happy, as this movie does.

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Posted jan 7, 2007 10:57 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  100
  This is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in - a movie about dreams.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  100
  What it's really about is taking a second chance to make good on old regrets and dead hopes. Never mind the baseball, this is one for the heart, made beautifully.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  90
  A work so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion.

  by Caryn James | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  88
  Despite a few wrong turns early on, the movie gathers graceful momentum and heads straight to the warm heart of the book - that fond spot located just on the safe side of sentimentality, a feel- good place that doesn't leave any feel-stupid fallout.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  As shrewd and accomplished as the movie is, there's still something uncomfortably manipulative about it... It doesn't explore its primal theme as much as it exploits it, tapping into the automatic, nearly universal power of guilt and regret. [21 Apr 1989, Friday, p.A]

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  Imagine: a pseudo-intellectual baseball fantasy loaded up, like a spitter, with seductive sentiment. You can distrust the mix, but still like the movie - and I do. [21 Apr 1989, Life, p.D1]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  But there's something missing, something tentative and uncertain. In order to pull off a magic trick, you often have to distract the audience with smooth patter, clever detail or indirection. And this movie tries to play it so pure and unabashed that we can see right up its sleeves. [21 Apr 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  Ultimately, the film relies too heavily on consensual acceptance of baseball iconography as some kind of symbolic shorthand for all kinds of American values. These days, most of us prefer the NBA.

  by Staff (Non Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  60
  Everything from time travel to melodrama figures in this whimsically daft story, a romanticization that tries your patience even as your tear ducts well.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  60
  If you're in the right mood this movie will bring a tear to your eye. If you're not you're probably already watching "Reservoir Dogs".

  by Brad Laidman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  In spite of a script hobbled with cloying aphorisms and shameless sentimentality, Field of Dreams sustains a dreamy mood in which the idea of baseball is distilled to its purest essence.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  The movie may steal a base here and there, but there are no homers.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  50
  Well-made treacle.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  The picture almost overwhelms you with sheer niceness. Unfortunately, this effect doesn't last; eventually the movie goes too far and overdoses on its own saccharine. [2 May 1989, Arts, p.11]

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  This movie reverie has an almost laughable '80s tone - a yuppified style and even language - that practically buries Costner. [21 Apr 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1]

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »