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www.filmcritic.com - : Field of Dreams, despite a script with Capra-like levels of Old Fashioned American Goodness, is one of the most daring Hollywood films of the ‘80s. It asks us to suspend our disbelief more than any movie that doesn’t feature lasers and robots, builds its plot around an esoteric era of sports history most people care nothing about, and suggests that a man who befriends ghosts and endangers his family is a hero. But sinuously, these plot threads wend their way through the film, sensibly and believably, so that when we’re hit with a double-whammy of tear-jerking plot twists, we don’t feel manipulated or bullied into responding. more...
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4/5
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www.filmthreat.com - : ''Field of Dreams'' is based on a novel by W.P. Kinsella that I thought to be practically unfilmable. It's about Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), a '60s liberal, who never got along with his hard-bitten father about anything but their love of baseball. Costner follows his wife to Iowa, where he becomes a struggling farmer who begins to hear voices, ''If you build it he will come,'' and see visions of a baseball diamond where his corn is supposed to be growing. more...
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3/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Field of Dreams'' will not appeal to grinches and grouches and realists. It is a delicate movie, a fragile construction of one goofy fantasy after another. But it has the courage to be about exactly what it promises. ''If you build it, he will come.'' And he does. In a baseball movie named ''The Natural,'' the hero seemed almost messianic. more...
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4/4
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