Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, adapting W. P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. The film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) and the Chicago Black Sox; Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster (in his final film role) also star. It was theatrically released on May 5, 1989. Today we will discuss about Field of Dreams: 2021| Full Movie| Box Office| Quotes.
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The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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Directed by | Phil Alden Robinson |
Screenplay by | Phil Alden Robinson |
Based on | Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella |
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Cinematography | John Lindley |
Edited by | Ian Crafford |
Music by | James Horner |
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Gordon Company
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million |
Box office | $84.4 million |
2021
After being postponed in 2020, Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams Game is set for Thursday at in Dysersville, Iowa at a specially-constructed ballpark in the cornfields next to the movie site. About 8,000 fans will be on hand to watch the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox in the first MLB game ever played in the state of Iowa.
“I’m looking forward to just being a kid in a candy store,” said Dwier Brown, who played Ray Kinsella’s father in the 1989 film, selected in 2017 for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Full Movie
Ray Kinsella, who is 36, lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their Iowa corn farm. Troubled by his broken relationship with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan, he fears growing old without achieving anything.
While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, “If you build it, he will come.” He sees a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson standing in the middle. Believing in him, Annie lets him plow under part of their corn crop to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.
Box Office
According to Box Office Mojo, “Field of Dreams” had a shockingly meager opening in April of 1989 with $531,346 across only 22 theaters. However, it would go on to gross $84,431,625 worldwide throughout its impressive run in theaters through December.
Quotes
The ‘Field of Dreams‘ gives a message of belief, love, and passion, family, relations, and to pursue the vision of a dream.
The movie sets its plot around the building of a baseball court in cornfields. One fine day Ray Kinsella hears a mysterious voice from his cornfields saying, “If you build it he will come.”