Countdown to season opener: The 10 Best Baseball Movies #2 "Field of Dreams" (1989)
By John Roberts
@JohnRoberts (109846)
Los Angeles, California
April 2, 2016 10:23am CST
Most people would select "Field of Dreams" number one and have a solid argument. Everyone is familiar with this movie. A mysterious voice tells struggling Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), "If you build it, he will come." Ray clears out a section of cornfields to build a baseball diamond despite his wife's reluctance. Based on W.P. Kinsella's story, "Field of Dreams" is fantasy and baseball and most of all, about fathers and sons and unfulfilled dreams. Ray had a troubled relationship with his baseball fanatic father who idolized Shoeless Joe Jackson. A big moment is the rustling of the corn and Shoeless Joe (Ray Liotta) emerges. Perhaps the ultimate baseball movie.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
2 Apr 16
What woman didn't watch it and drool over Kevin!
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
3 Apr 16
It's such a feel good kind of movie, whether one likes baseball or not. Most everyone I know loves that movie for everything it encompasses.
@RasmaSandra (80884)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Apr 16
@JohnRoberts I was never a major baseball fan when I lived in NYC. Now here in Riga, Latvia we have so many fields and places where guys could play baseball and I know little boys would love to learn the game. I just don't understand why no one adopts this game.
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
2 Apr 16
This would have been #1 on my list of favorite baseball movies.
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
2 Apr 16
I've heard it's really good, but I've not seen it. I'm just not a Costner fan. Did like him in The Untouchables, though.
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
2 Apr 16
I absolutely adore this movie John. It was of course with one of my favs the Kevin.
Also Ray Liotta..cant get enough of that strange fellow
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
2 Apr 16
@JohnRobers.Yes,this is my favorite John.Should be interest what other say.
