Monday, 11 February 2013

If you build it


Field of Dreams (1989)

Based on the novel “Shoeless Joe” this film from director Phil Alden Robinson stars Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster. A mysterious voice urges a farmer to cut down his crop and build a baseball field.

Baseball and baseball history feature heavily in this film but like all the best sports films familiarity with the sport is not required to enjoy this film. The film does a good job at looking at the positive effect sport can have on people, mainly through dreams and reconciliation. There are some good performances and the special effects mostly hold up really well, the best parts being how the players disappear into the fields of corn.

5/5

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