Field of Dreams (1989)
"If you build it, he will come." With thes words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife Annie (Madigan), Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann (Jones), the mysterious "Doc" Graham (Lancaster), and even the legendary "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (Liotta). (Universal)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Phil Alden Robinson
Written By: Phil Alden Robinson, W.P. Kinsella
Starring: James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Matt Damon, Burt Lancaster, Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Frank Whaley, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, Gaby Hoffmann, Dwier Brown, Steve Eastin
Genres: Drama, Family/Kids, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Where to Stream
Loading...
Field of Dreams belongs to 39 collections
1. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (collaborative: moderated by kozan26 - 234 stars)
2. Academy Award - Oscar - Best Picture and Nominees (collaborative: moderated by smviper00 - 44 stars)
3. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time (public: Ross - 36 stars)
4. National Film Registry (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 30 stars)
5. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 30 stars)
6. AAA: Empire's five star movies (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 24 stars)
7. IMDb Top 250 Complete (collaborative: moderated by Jorg - 23 stars)
8. Academy Award - Oscar - ALL Best Picture, Directing, Acting & Screenplay Nominees (collaborative - 22 stars)
9. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
10. Feel Good Movies (collaborative: moderated by Midaso - 17 stars)
11. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
12. films101.com's 5 star films (collaborative: moderated by ppinocchio - 11 stars)
13. Cinema Discusso Yearly Consensus (2008) (public: PeaceAnarchy - 10 stars)
14. AFI 100 Most Inspiring Films (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 8 stars)
15. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
16. Sport (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 5 stars)
17. Art of Manliness 100 Must See Movies for Men (collaborative - 5 stars)
18. List: Empire's 301 Greatest Movies of All Time (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 5 stars)
19. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)
20. 100 Recommended Children's Movies (The New York Times Essential Library) (collaborative: moderated by BeeDub - 3 stars)
21. Baseball (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 2 stars)
22. AFI - 10 Top 10 Fantasy (collaborative: moderated by CCLZA - 2 stars)
23. Top 2000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 2 stars)
24. NBR Top 10 Films (collaborative: moderated by xacviant - 1 star)
25. AFI - 10 Top 10 (All) (collaborative: moderated by Phantom Nook - 1 star)
26. Roger Ebert's Top 10 Films of 1989 (collaborative)
27. James Horner (composer) (collaborative: moderated by djross)
28. Iowa (collaborative: moderated by geohawk)
29. The Canon podcast (all films) (collaborative: moderated by psim)
30. USA: Up All Night (collaborative: moderated by HaileyS)
31. The Canon podcast (only the Canon) (collaborative: moderated by psim)
32. Available on Divicast (collaborative: moderated by Dunstan-xxx)
33. Pendientes (public: juglar103)
34. 1989: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
35. Joy (public: BurakOzturk)
36. My Movie Collection (public: elhenzo)
37. Films Dunstan Owns (public: Dunstan-xxx)
38. Blu-ray Collection (public: TripEuphoric)
39. Movies to See (public: Jessjess125)
Browse the full list of collections
| Stars | User | Rating | |
| 9 |  |
MArkjp | 90 90th |
|
Like a Stephen King-written love letter to baseball.
|
|||
| 9 |  |
TimeCapsule | 73 70th |
|
Watching this on the jumbotron, inside a MLB stadium, after a game, the day before Father's Day, was a bit of a unique experience for my first time seeing this classic baseball movie. Although my father, instead of watching this slightly underwhelming, yet oddly endearing schmaltz with me, went out with his new girlfriend. But it's cool, in 20 years I'll just build a baseball field in the middle of Iowa so I can have a catch with his ghost. That'll make up for the lack of our relationship.
|
|||
| 6 |  |
KasperL | 20 4th |
|
So you thought the synopsis for 'Star Trek iV: The Voyage Home' had got to be the craziest in history to ever get the green light? Well, I'll take time travelling whales over this non-sensical, sentimental bullshit any day of the week! How something like this receives rating colors other than reds, I cannot begin to comprehend.
|
|||
| 5 |  |
terrymac | 71 62nd |
|
I had a lot of time for this. A pleasant, magical little tale with a nice vein of feel-goodness, and the added bonus of James Earl Jones. I might have gripes, but I have little interest in exploring them. Nice.
|
|||
| 5 |  |
BillyShears | 80 77th |
|
So close to having a Ty Cobb makes the Terrence Mann character super uncomfortable scene. I find baseball really boring but I eat up baseball lore because I enjoy Kevin Costner the actor come fight me
|
|||
| 5 |  |
guy piranha | 80 90th |
|
There's something special about this kind of unflinching, no room for doubt-80s cinema. It's weird in all sorts of ways, and I'm not sure if it even means all that much. But man, did I like it.
|
|||
| 5 |  |
Paxton | 72 71st |
|
"People will come." It's one of the best (if somewhat overly self-important) speeches in movie history. Baseball puts me to sleep faster than listening to your work stories, but I still love this movie. Plus a Ray Liotta ghost!
|
|||
| 4 |  |
PeaceAnarchy | 64 15th |
|
A well made film, but one's whose syrupy feel good message gets really tiresome. The film constantly acknowledges it's own fantasy, but in a way that just makes it more ridiculous. It still got to me at times, and maybe without Madigan's annoying laugh I might have left with an overall positive impression.
|
|||
| 4 |  |
nobamba | 60 61st |
|
Everyone talks about how it transcends sports but I just see a fanservice feel good sports movie with idealized rural dynamics. Probably speaks more to people with love for baseball and unresolved feelings toward their fathers. You know what's happening and what's going to happen as far as emotional moments go. I like time travel and literary characters. Fav scenes: pandering town hall speech by the wife, who really doesn't do much here except stand by her man; JEJ being kidnapped.
|
|||
| 3 |  |
fuxoft | 95 98th |
|
Just beautiful. I don't care about baseball AT ALL and I usually hate Kevin Costner. But this movie is magical fantasy.
|
|||
| 3 |  |
sully32 | 100 99th |
|
I don't care how manly you are, if you don't tear up at least a half-dozen times during this flick you've got no soul. It's about baseball, it's about fathers and sons, it's about redemption...Kevin Costner at his wide-eyed best as the simple farmer caught up in something he can't understand (and Ray Liotta as effective and understated as he's been).
|
|||
| 3 |  |
hellsditch | 90 93rd |
|
Man, this one goes right for the heartstrings. I know I'm being manipulated with nostalgia the whole time, but I just don't care. It's genuinely moving and the ending gets me every time without fail.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
doctor7 | 87 88th |
|
This is a great film, some may only say it's good but I, on the other hand, say it's great. I don't know about everyone else but I find the plot device of no one believe another person's extraordinary events really annoying. This, however, has a nice mix of people believing and not. I loved the surreal touch to the film and Costner and James Earl Jones are both fantastic. Really I don't even like baseball but this is a great film.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
Ytadel | 7 83rd |
|
The rare movie that's melodramatic and manipulative, and you know it the whole time, but damn if it works and you just don't care. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
Stain | 100 95th |
|
An A-budget fantasy that has a religious approach to baseball(!!!) and that makes up the "rules" as it goes along really shouldn't work, but it does, and brilliantly. One of the most unique films of its kind ever made, which is all the stranger noting the star cast
|
|||
| 2 |  |
Luna6ix | 88 95th |
|
the kind of movie that no one can resist. it contains one of the most famous quotes that will ever be recorded, it can be a bit slow at times but does not fail to stun and shock you in its beauty.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
spleen | 70 40th |
|
Ok, so Robin Hood and Darth Vader are driving through Idaho and they pick up Robbie Kreiger. I forget the middle part but the punch line is "No... I am your father".
|
|||
| 2 |  |
SirStuckey | 75 67th |
|
If you take a step back and really think about it, this is one of the weirdest premises for a movie. It does somehow work though, and much better than a lot of other fantasy family movies. I watched this like 30 times as a kid because I only had about 10 VHS options available to me at home.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
FrederikA | 35 12th |
|
I don't care for baseball, in fact I find the sport fairly boring, so admittedly the premise for this movie, was lost on me from the get-go. That being said: This has GOT to be the most stupid metaphor ever told.
|
|||
| 2 |  |
DavidBlast | 30 13th |
|
This is the dumbest movie I have ever seen in my life.
|
|||
| 2 | Wolfwoode | 55 21st |
|
|
What mixes better than God, baseball, Kevin Costner, and a message of relentless optimism? Most other things.
|
|||
| 2 | waddayanuts | 25 0th |
|
|
Watch it if you like The Blind Side, i.e. you like very bad films.
|
|||
| 1 | svicciarelli | 90 82nd |
|
|
A totally uplifting pic, but its not cheap emotion.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
TheDenizen | 40 17th |
|
Schmaltzy and weak drama/fantasy about dead baseball players or something. Costner is not a good actor.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
BattleToad | 85 76th |
|
Although it is a terrific film, even with Kevin Costner, I found this hard to watch a second time. It's a great story with an interesting mix of real and surreal, and it's full of many incredible performances, but you can't get a whole lot out of multiple viewings. Really good!
|
|||
| 1 |  |
Cerebrus | 70 61st |
|
A far stranger and better film then I though it would be going in.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
ozymandius10 | 83 84th |
|
Aside from Ray Liotta swinging the bat from the wrong side (Shoeless Joe was a lefty at the plate), I don't really have many gripes with Field of Dreams. It's a cool journey with a good supporting cast, and a last 15 or so minutes that usually leave me choked up or in tears.
|
|||
| 1 | jonquill | 85 44th |
|
|
"They'll come to Iowa, and they'll get bored."
|
|||
| 1 |  |
recklessmess | 75 57th |
|
OK, so wait, the ghost baseball rookie steps over the rocks, becomes a ghost doctor and revives the little girl with a slap on the back? seriously? Then, they all forget about the fact that the brother-in-law nearly killed their daughter?
|
|||
| 1 |  |
tathiel | 90 95th |
|
My favourite baseball movie. Costner and baseball, what an alliance. He did so many baseball movies, but this is the best.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
cult_of_same | 30 31st |
|
Once again proving men are sentimental shmucks when it comes to sport.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
Councillor | 15 12th |
|
PITCH: A man builds a baseball pitch in his garden for ghosts.
|
|||
| 1 | MovieCorn | 85 72nd |
|
|
This is obviously a great movie and has been known as one for a long time. I am a huge basebal fan which made this movie even better, but someone would not have to know anything about baseball to love this movie. It envokes family unity as well as personal accomplishment. This is a very uplifting movie that everyone should see at least once. I give it only an 85 simply because its slow at some points and for the yonger generations it may seem to drag on. Still a great movie.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
letskillrobots | 26 77th |
|
Or "The Story of How Darth Vader Saved Baseball."
|
|||
| 1 |  |
Van Baggio | 78 18th |
|
It's incredible how much Kevin Costner likes Baseball. For him, unfortunatelly, I don't...
|
|||
| 1 |  |
hellboy76 | 69 73rd |
|
I don't care if it's overly sentimental and obvious, I love baseball and the place it has (or used ot have) in America.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
glumpy_99 | 97 93rd |
|
Utterly charming and captivating fantasy shouldn't work as well as it does (especially for someone in whom baseball holds no sentimental appeal) but the sincerity and utterly straight acceptance of what's a fairly outlandish idea sells the Capraesque fantasy perfectly (we also get a Jimmy Stewart shout-out as if there was any doubt!). Costner is perfectly warm and stoic here, matched by some of Jones' best work and a lovely cameo from Lancaster. Touching, moving and even profoundly spiritual.
|
|||
| 1 | jesselc | 68 66th |
|
|
So a baseball-obsessed farmer with obnoxious hippyish tendencies decides to destroy his crops and build a baseball field so ghosts can play there. Pretty standard movie.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
Nick Hamden (Gorgon Reviews) | 40 19th |
|
I watched this movie for a date once. Was the girls idea. She stood up the whole movie, refusing to sit down anywhere. Only a bit awkward, but ruined the rating of this movie for me.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
LuxNatalis | 24 8th |
|
On my first ever trip to America, my American cousin took me to watch a local baseball game. He was trying to explain the rules to me and I didn't understand shit. After the game, he introduced me to one of the players, big guy and told him "this is my cousin, he's from Europe, so he doesn't like baseball". Then big guy turned to me all puzzled and said "What do you mean you don't like no baseball? Are you a communist???" That line cracks me up every time I think of it.
|
|||
| 1 | vv238 | 66 70th |
|
|
If the first act were not so dreadfully slow, it would be ranked among the best baseball films. It has a lot of heart and takes some risks with its boilerplate premise.
|
|||
| 1 |  |
Barnowl | 96 75th |
|
Field of Dreams isn't flawless, but it is certainly a classic and full of genuineness.
|
|||
| Average Percentile 54.8% from 4202 Ratings |  |