This is made favourite movie by far, I am 58 and have never been to a game, I am a football fan and player(soccer). I have my own personal reasons for it pulling at my heartstrings every time i watch it. As i live in Australia, Iowa is a long way away but I had the honour going to the field of dreams last year. For 3 hours I just watched the world go by, watched families play ball, I sat on the bench and just took it all in. When Shoeless Joe asks is this heaven? I can tell him yes it is.
This is one of the best films ever made. I am 76 years old, and it brings back memories of my foster father. He was a wonderful and careing man. We played catch, went fishing and flew windup model planes. God, I miss him so.
It's amazing how some foster fathers can be better than real Dads --- just look at Loser Trump and the pricks he raised as sons and you see what I mean
A timeless movie. But in all the past and recent hoopla about the film, no one seems to recall Burt Lancaster’s contribution. He was a tremendous presence. I still get chills when I recall the scene where the little girl was choking, and Lancaster’s young character knew that he would have forfeit his dream to save the girl.
I can't believe they thought James Earl Jones' monologue about baseball would be on the cutting room floor. It's one of the most stirring speeches ever made and JEJ did it so good as if he was on stage.
I would suggest that they thought that .. because that was what their experience in Hollywood had taught them. You will probably never know how many great speeches & moments like that monologue have indeed ended on the cutting room floor throughout cinema history.
I grew up about 60 miles from Dyersville, IA. My friend and I played on that field in the late 1990s. She tossed the ball to me and I hit a few into the corn. What a thrill. There were only a few people there and it was not at all commercialized - just a baseball field at a farmhouse surrounded by corn and a small kiosk off to the side for gifts and memorabilia. I remember it had rained not long before we played and the field was muddy and voices carried but we went hunting for the balls in the corn and wrote “Field of Dreams” on the ones we found. Another friend told me she was in the line of cars at the end of the movie. It really does remind you of all that once was good and that it could be again.
@@ARichardP --- I heard that place has become too commercial now --- a couple gift shops charging over-priced souvenirs and such --- I wanted to visit it a few years ago but all I heard about was long lines and no parking
@@fredwerza3478 ...catch it at the right time, at you can easily find yourself there alone...Avoid the weekends...And there are a couple gift shops, because the field actually sits on 2 different pieces of property , owned by different people. And they each have their own shop...I'm not a big fan of the field down the road that MLB built to have their games....its going to kill some of the magic of the place I believe....
@@jessallen7756 --- the MLB stadium is only the beginning --- soon there will be a parking garage, restaurants, and small strip plaza there --- it's gonna turn into "Field of Consumerism" and the original dream will die
1 Year Old comment now, but if you love baseball type of movies and if you have not already seen it, the other movie i am thinking of is called. The Natural. with Robert Redford.
This movie spurred me to do something with my Dad. He had been a high school and small college football official in Texas. He got a taste of the big time at the very end of his officiating career and worked a few years in the Southwest Conference, but he had very few travel experiences outside of the SWC. He retired from officiating about the time this movie came out, and when I saw it I knew I owed him a lot for all he had done for me. So I started taking him, every fall, to one of the college football stadiums of lore he’d never worked a game in. Over the years we took in Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Clemson, Florida, LSU, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama together. And the kernel of the idea came from watching this movie. Thanks, Mr. Costner.
I tear up EVERY TIME I see this movie. However, I guess it was some kind of DVD special where the movie was followed by interviews with baseball players who talked about their dads and what this movie meant to them. And I WEPT LIKE A BABY throughout the whole thing! This movie IS MAGICAL!
Movies are the time markers in our lives. Kevin Costners movies have had an emotional affect on me all my life. He picked scripts that always has a important message and life lesson. His movies have been so consist in my life that I fell like I grew up watching all his movies. I've enjoyed them immensely
A lot of people bust on "The Postman" but I thought it was a good movie --- reminds me a lot of modern times when low IQ people become violent in order to follow false prophets like Trump who are only in it for power and greed
I could be cynical and start listing some real stinkers that Costner starred in, but it is also true that many of his movies are full of deep meaning and emotion. He has matured over the years, both as an actor and as a human being.
@@larrysmith2638 --- yeah I havent liked all his movies, such as "Waterworld" which was a Mad Max ripoff on the ocean LOL --- and I honestly haven't seen most of his movies after 2000, except for the Guardian which was kinda so-so
As a Japanese, this is the best movie for me as well. I saw it when I was in high school at a small movie theater in a local city in Japan. Ever since then, I have been longing for this place.
One of my favourite films I don't kno why ,brings me to tears and I watched it many times ,I live in England and not a fan of baseball really but there is just something that resonates, thank you for a wonderful film
@M Soccer is certainly more popular on a global scale. And there are some good and inspiring soccer movies. But baseball is special to the American psyche. There is a mystical quality to it that can't be fully explained. Both the movie, and the book it is based on, reflect that mystic quality.
@@MrMrnightstalker Yes, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. All 3rd world countries that can only afford to play soccer. In other words, don't be a dick.
Samuel Coleridge, the poet, advanced the concept of ' suspension of disbelief ' in 1817. He suggested that if a writer could tell a fantastical tale rooted in human truth, the reader would not judge the narrative unfairly. This is why " Field of Dreams " resonates with people.A deeply moving story about relationships and love.
My dad nearly died in 1999. He had a brain tumour and the prognosis was not good but luckily he survived and 18 years later is still going strong. Anyway like so many others I'm so touched by this movie and I think of how lucky I am I still have him
Actually there is CGI ,because a electric pole stands in the middle of centerfield with power lines running to it.....Of course, with CGI , it doesn't appear in the movie
@@jessallen7756 I think we will give them that one. Cgi wasn't used in the film instead of something real. I would say cgi removing a power pole wouldn't apply to the statement.
James Earl Jones really made this movie. He played the part very well. I Love movies like this, that let you escape reality even for a short time. But they live in your heart forever.
30 Years This Year! - First saw it as a 7 year old, now taking my 7 year old son to see it when they re-release it during Father's day weekend. Movie never gets old.
@@fredwerza3478 yep.... I watched the whole Field of Dreams Game and honestly I loved every minute of it.... it made me feel like a kid again.... MLB did a good job and really brought out the inner child in everyone......
I'm 65 vietnam vet & the end i cry every time i watch it , i would. Love to visit the field who knows? & james the speech is worth an oscar love it thank you all☺☺☺☺
This movie was based upon a book written by Bill Kinsella, one of Canada’s most famous authors. He graciously signed books for me which I gave to my dad & three brothers - each one a dad! In my last communication with him I sent another 4 books and asked if he would sign and add a special note for the young boys who were then only grandsons. He was happy to fulfill MY DREAM as he walked into Heaven only 3 days after I received the book. Thank you Bill for your beautiful story, your kindness and your Field of Dreams! 😇🙏🏻🌭⚾️
Visited the field of dreams with Mom and Dad in summer of 1991, only two years after the release of the movie. Dad would die of cancer 5 short years later. The strange thing is we didn't "have a catch" at the field. Not sure why we didn't but we didn't. When I was a kid dad would get down on one knee and catch me after a long day of work and eventually I would grow into a college pitcher. Can still see him on one knee catching throw after throw after throw. Thanks dad for being there for me.
Iam. 51. Years. Old. Now.field. of dreams. Is. Till my. Favorite. Movie of. All. Time. Thank you. Kevin. Costner. And James. Early. James. For. Staring in. Great movie for. People. To. See.
I lost my Dad 9 years ago. We had a good relationship and to this day, I get choked up at that last scene. I am not an emotional person and it takes a lot to get to that point. This scene does it every time. I think of it every time I play catch with my son.
I played Little League Baseball in the late 50's. . .I loved the game. My Dad and I practiced a lot in the back yard or the small field next to our house. I even had a pro Ball Player from the Cubs come by one day when he was in town to play the Phillies (Bob Rush). He knew my Uncle and so he came by one afternoon, watched me pitch and gave me some pointers. I would have played all through High School and maybe beyond that but I had a Coach in my Freshman year of High School who knew very little about how to bring kids into the next phase of the game. I was having trouble getting enough speed on the ball because I wasn't used to the distance from the mound to the plate. All he knew to tell me was "throw harder". I threw until I finally threw my arm out and never played again. My Dad died of Cancer in 1973 and I miss him to this day (I'm 72 now). It's hard for me to watch this movie because I know what's coming. . .that one scene. . .when Ray asks his Dad if he wants to play catch I cry uncontrollably. All those years playing ball and practicing with my Dad come rushing back and it's overwhelming. It is a great movie!!
This is a movie that we somehow missed showing to our kids as they were growing up (youngest is now 19). My wife checked it out at the library the other day... and I, too, cried uncontrollably when that final scene came up. I think that, right there, shows what a father-son relationship should be, whether it's with baseball or any other activity where they can just spend time together. My son didn't care for baseball, but loves soccer. Some of my better memories are from either working on soccer technique in the back yard--acting on one simple suggestion from me that he had practiced was the difference in his team winning an important game later--or from trips the two of us took for soccer tournaments and ODP tryouts. I really cherish those memories.
My baseball story takes place in the 70's when I was in grade school --- my Dad signed me up for Little League even though I didnt wanna play because some of the kids on my team were bullies and the coach was an angry jerk --- after one season, he let me quit and just play backyard baseball with my buddies --- my Dad tried to play with us but he didnt have much athletic ability so he just spectated our games --- kind of a corny story but that's why we all love baseball and the impact it had on our lives in some way
This is always the movie I watch when I miss my own Dad, who died the year this movie was made. This is such a great movie in so many ways. I'll always love it!!!
When Ray asks him if he wants to play catch nearly brings me to tears too. I also have my father issues. I was a small kid the last time i saw him somewhere around the late 70s. I was adopted by my step dad after my mom remarried. In 1983 when I was 11, we recognized a phone call that he had died in a trucking accident. I wish we could play catch.
This movie had it all and hit on all 8 cylinders for many people in many different ways. It's timeless because it told a story about the unspoken realities so many people carry. Top 5 GOAT for me.
@JAY OH, I Can't believe you haven't gotten more likes for your comment. Because I agree with you 100%. Sure their are some good movies out all the time. But nothing that can equally match the star power, the storyline with it's overall mixture of emotions of both happy, funny, sad and loving. And the love for baseball America's greatest halftime sport. And Hollywood hasn't been able to accomplish anything as great as this movie since then. How sad! Sorry for the long reply I'm just feelin' really emotional right now. You know how us ladies are. 😊 Thank you for your time and Have a great day! 🌞
I watched this movie as a young man a bunch of times, and I've watched it since I lost my dad 5 years ago. It finally struck me that the voice wasn't just telling Ray just to build a field. It was telling him to build a mind set of belief in something more than what he had accepted as reality. Only in that state of belief would he be able to reunite with his father.
My favorite part is right after that line, it's the part that starts my emotions about the movie. Ray says to Shoeless Joe, "It was you!", and Shoeless Joe says "No Ray, it was you", speaking of the voice.
I’m British, have never visited the USA nor do I have a clue about the rules of baseball, but there is something about Field Of Dreams that caught my imagination, and continues to hold it to this day. I just love the whole story about Ray and the difficult relationship he had with his father, and how the encounter with “the voice” was so persuasive that he ploughed up the field and built a baseball ground and, eventually, the gamble pays off. The actors are all so good, and the tension between Ray and his brother-in-law is really well played. The scene where Timothy Busfield nearly gets knocked out by the batter is hilarious, as is the fact that he can’t see what’s going on and thinks they’re all crazy! Thank you for this look back at such a special film in my life, and some of the cast who made it happen.
a few years ago, I went the distance. and when I changed my shoes into cleats, and stepped across the first base line, I got chills.. it was absolutely amazing. Walking out to the corn.
I just watched If You Build It 30 Years of Field of Dreams….a beautiful story. Hearing all about the filming of this movie is fascinating and heartwarming. The actors talking to us…great memoir. ❤️
All i want to see is the headlights of the cars coming to the field,that would be awesome!if it weren't that I'm stuck in a foreign land i definitely would be in that number..
They showed the James Earl Jones speech at Yankee Stadium between innings a few years ago. After the camera focused on James Earl Jones who was in a Corporate Box and the crowd erupted in sustained applause.
Could it have been 2011? He was on Broadway in Driving Miss Daisy with Vanessa Redgrave. I know it was Winter 2010 and Spring 2011. If it was not in April or May it was possibly a different year. That was the year he turned 80. He just turned 93. The voice! A great actor who got the best lines in the movie.
I know my Dad would definitely love to have a Field of Dreams moment with his Dad! My Grandfather died when I was 5. My Dad made sure to be the best Dad he could be to me! We've been so close my whole life. He told me he and his Dad had a lot of different interests and personalities. I know he would love to Reunite with his Dad on Earth and grow closer again!
I don’t watch baseball games on television but I have my team and have seen several movies based on baseball field of dreams, a league of their own and 42 are my favorites in that order! All 3 of these movies are based on either a true story or a book another reason I love these movies is they are told in a different time period and are historically true
Field of Dreams is not a baseball movie. Bull Durham was a baseball movie. This was a movie about the heart and soul of each of us, and the connections that bind us all together. Baseball just marked the time.
Most of the truly great movies I've seen in the past three or four decades have one thing in common: Kevin Costner is in the cast. It did not hurt to have another favorite, James Earl Jones, in the FIeld cast.
I was 10 when this movie came out... always thought it was about just baseball, when i became an adult i realized there was so much more to this movie, I watch this and really tugs at me. all the time!. today i have a 10 year old girl and we watch this movie a lot!
Same age. It was a time when I was still playing little league, and the baseball part of it was exciting to watch, but it was always just... background, y'know? But I loved the movie because baseball was pretty much all I had with my dad. So this movie always resonated with me, even back then. That catch was all I'd really ever have with the man.
This movie represents all that was good about Hollywood once, when the script was more important than special effects. This little movie still moves me...
I remember getting lost once on my way to Oakland University in Michigan, and passing a ball game on some field in the middle of nowhere; reminded me of the last scene of the movie.
My father’s father had passed in Oct of ‘88. We were a big baseball family. I was 10. This was the first movie we saw after DaddaMack’s passing. My father passed in Oct 2017. It’s just gut wrenching
It's August 12, 2021, and the New York Yankees will be playing the Chicago White Sox, in a Major League Game on the Field of Dreams tonight. Can't wait.
Jesus, Ray Liota's gaze was PIERCING at this age. I cry every time "Doc" can't go back.....Only being a Doctor for a week, THAT would have been a tragedy.
Amazing concept: those with fond memories of their father get choked up - but so do those who wish they had those memories (i.e. those with absent or not-so-great dads).
If someone told you the premise of this movie, you'd say "that's so dopey and corny and couldn't possibly be a movie - much less a good one". And yet...it all works. That's magic.
This is made favourite movie by far, I am 58 and have never been to a game, I am a football fan and player(soccer). I have my own personal reasons for it pulling at my heartstrings every time i watch it. As i live in Australia, Iowa is a long way away but I had the honour going to the field of dreams last year. For 3 hours I just watched the world go by, watched families play ball, I sat on the bench and just took it all in. When Shoeless Joe asks is this heaven? I can tell him yes it is.
Yes field of dreams outstanding movie ❤😊
This is one of the best films ever made. I am 76 years old, and it brings back memories of my foster father. He was a wonderful and careing man. We played catch, went fishing and flew windup model planes. God, I miss him so.
It's amazing how some foster fathers can be better than real Dads --- just look at Loser Trump and the pricks he raised as sons and you see what I mean
A timeless movie. But in all the past and recent hoopla about the film, no one seems to recall Burt Lancaster’s contribution. He was a tremendous presence. I still get chills when I recall the scene where the little girl was choking, and Lancaster’s young character knew that he would have forfeit his dream to save the girl.
Burt was great and so was Ray Liotta --- a lot of great actors signed up to be in this "little movie"
Me,too. Burt Lancaster was an incredible part of the heart of this film.
And it was Burt Lancasters final movie role
Next scene is him carrying his doctor bag. Such a beautiful moment.
Not completely forfeit his dream. He did get his dream of winking at the pitcher.
I can't believe they thought James Earl Jones' monologue about baseball would be on the cutting room floor. It's one of the most stirring speeches ever made and JEJ did it so good as if he was on stage.
I would suggest that they thought that .. because that was what their experience in Hollywood had taught them.
You will probably never know how many great speeches & moments like that monologue have indeed ended on the cutting room floor throughout cinema history.
I have cried every single time I've watched this beautiful gem
Who says there's no crying in baseball?
Love to see that field one day and visit heavenly Iowa.
I grew up about 60 miles from Dyersville, IA. My friend and I played on that field in the late 1990s. She tossed the ball to me and I hit a few into the corn. What a thrill. There were only a few people there and it was not at all commercialized - just a baseball field at a farmhouse surrounded by corn and a small kiosk off to the side for gifts and memorabilia. I remember it had rained not long before we played and the field was muddy and voices carried but we went hunting for the balls in the corn and wrote “Field of Dreams” on the ones we found. Another friend told me she was in the line of cars at the end of the movie. It really does remind you of all that once was good and that it could be again.
@@ARichardP --- I heard that place has become too commercial now --- a couple gift shops charging over-priced souvenirs and such --- I wanted to visit it a few years ago but all I heard about was long lines and no parking
@@fredwerza3478 l wouldn’t doubt it.
@@fredwerza3478 ...catch it at the right time, at you can easily find yourself there alone...Avoid the weekends...And there are a couple gift shops, because the field actually sits on 2 different pieces of property , owned by different people. And they each have their own shop...I'm not a big fan of the field down the road that MLB built to have their games....its going to kill some of the magic of the place I believe....
@@jessallen7756 --- the MLB stadium is only the beginning --- soon there will be a parking garage, restaurants, and small strip plaza there --- it's gonna turn into "Field of Consumerism" and the original dream will die
And the dream has fully come to fruition now. We are all believers, they built it, we came.
I am 56 years old and have seen this so many times and I still am brought to tears every time. Definitely my favorite movie of all time.
Grumpy Old Gray Metalhead mine too. So touching, and inspirational.
1 Year Old comment now, but if you love baseball type of movies and if you have not already seen it, the other movie i am thinking of is called.
The Natural. with Robert Redford.
Did they all die
@@weldmachine Awesome movie!
Ditto. The only good memories I have of my Dad involve baseball
What a sweetheart Costner is. He knows and understands the power of memory and emotion. A true believer. I really admire him.
"...the power of memory and emotion." In Deed.
Costner is a diehard Anti-Trumper --- another reason why we love him!
Absolutely!! He has a story to tell and the movie is as long as it needs to be to tell that story.
This movie spurred me to do something with my Dad. He had been a high school and small college football official in Texas. He got a taste of the big time at the very end of his officiating career and worked a few years in the Southwest Conference, but he had very few travel experiences outside of the SWC. He retired from officiating about the time this movie came out, and when I saw it I knew I owed him a lot for all he had done for me. So I started taking him, every fall, to one of the college football stadiums of lore he’d never worked a game in. Over the years we took in Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Clemson, Florida, LSU, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama together. And the kernel of the idea came from watching this movie. Thanks, Mr. Costner.
One of the greatest movies of all time
I tear up EVERY TIME I see this movie. However, I guess it was some kind of DVD special where the movie was followed by interviews with baseball players who talked about their dads and what this movie meant to them. And I WEPT LIKE A BABY throughout the whole thing! This movie IS MAGICAL!
Movies are the time markers in our lives. Kevin Costners movies have had an emotional affect on me all my life. He picked scripts that always has a important message and life lesson. His movies have been so consist in my life that I fell like I grew up watching all his movies. I've enjoyed them immensely
A lot of people bust on "The Postman" but I thought it was a good movie --- reminds me a lot of modern times when low IQ people become violent in order to follow false prophets like Trump who are only in it for power and greed
I could be cynical and start listing some real stinkers that Costner starred in, but it is also true that many of his movies are full of deep meaning and emotion. He has matured over the years, both as an actor and as a human being.
@@larrysmith2638 --- yeah I havent liked all his movies, such as "Waterworld" which was a Mad Max ripoff on the ocean LOL --- and I honestly haven't seen most of his movies after 2000, except for the Guardian which was kinda so-so
@@fredwerza3478I know it’s not the popular opinion but, I like Waterworld.
@@fredwerza3478You should see Open Range. ❤
As a Japanese, this is the best movie for me as well. I saw it when I was in high school at a small movie theater in a local city in Japan. Ever since then, I have been longing for this place.
Saw my Dad tear up in 1989 when he saw this--he passed in '95--still remember that moment..now 30 years old---Go Moonlight!
One of my favourite films I don't kno why ,brings me to tears and I watched it many times ,I live in England and not a fan of baseball really but there is just something that resonates, thank you for a wonderful film
I get goosebumps at the end, even though I’ve seen it thousands of times & can recite the dialogue.
Yep, the end, where all the headlights are seen for miles.
@M yep because soccer is a very poor sport that can be played in 3rd world countries
Me too!
@M Soccer is certainly more popular on a global scale. And there are some good and inspiring soccer movies.
But baseball is special to the American psyche. There is a mystical quality to it that can't be fully explained. Both the movie, and the book it is based on, reflect that mystic quality.
@@MrMrnightstalker Yes, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. All 3rd world countries that can only afford to play soccer.
In other words, don't be a dick.
The music in this movie was unbelievable
Samuel Coleridge, the poet, advanced the concept of ' suspension of disbelief ' in 1817. He suggested that if a writer could tell a fantastical tale rooted in human truth, the reader would not judge the narrative unfairly. This is why " Field of Dreams " resonates with people.A deeply moving story about relationships and love.
My dad nearly died in 1999. He had a brain tumour and the prognosis was not good but luckily he survived and 18 years later is still going strong. Anyway like so many others I'm so touched by this movie and I think of how lucky I am I still have him
Magical film, no cgi, no guns, no violence, just an amazing story.
It almost had a gun , but it turned out to be his finger !
Actually there is CGI ,because a electric pole stands in the middle of centerfield with power lines running to it.....Of course, with CGI , it doesn't appear in the movie
@@jessallen7756 I think we will give them that one. Cgi wasn't used in the film instead of something real. I would say cgi removing a power pole wouldn't apply to the statement.
@@ralphkelly7222😂😂
James Earl Jones really made this movie.
He played the part very well.
I Love movies like this, that let you escape reality even for a short time.
But they live in your heart forever.
30 Years This Year! - First saw it as a 7 year old, now taking my 7 year old son to see it when they re-release it during Father's day weekend. Movie never gets old.
Fast forward about 7 years, and a new field is built next door where MLB plays a professional baseball game.......the legend continues......
It's interesting how a "little movie" about baseball can become a cult classic and make MLB beg on it's knees to use it as a publicity booster
@@fredwerza3478 yep.... I watched the whole Field of Dreams Game and honestly I loved every minute of it.... it made me feel like a kid again.... MLB did a good job and really brought out the inner child in everyone......
One of the best movies/films ever mad in my option...
John Lasley 👏👏👏.
@John Lasley,
👍👍👍😉👏👏👏
I'm 65 vietnam vet & the end i cry every time i watch it , i would. Love to visit the field who knows? & james the speech is worth an oscar love it thank you all☺☺☺☺
Then go, only yourself is holding you back. You will meet people along the way that are going to but dont know why like the movie said would happen.
@@Brandon-ch2ot agreed. I just went last weekend. It almost made me cry being there
The movie was on tv tonight. I never watched it before...I WAS IN TEARS !!!! GREAT MOVIE !!
This movie was based upon a book written by Bill Kinsella, one of Canada’s most famous authors. He graciously signed books for me which I gave to my dad & three brothers - each one a dad! In my last communication with him I sent another 4 books and asked if he would sign and add a special note for the young boys who were then only grandsons. He was happy to fulfill MY DREAM as he walked into Heaven only 3 days after I received the book. Thank you Bill for your beautiful story, your kindness and your Field of Dreams! 😇🙏🏻🌭⚾️
And how could you not fall in love with baseball.
One of the best movies ever.
Visited the field of dreams with Mom and Dad in summer of 1991, only two years after the release of the movie. Dad would die of cancer 5 short years later. The strange thing is we didn't "have a catch" at the field. Not sure why we didn't but we didn't. When I was a kid dad would get down on one knee and catch me after a long day of work and eventually I would grow into a college pitcher. Can still see him on one knee catching throw after throw after throw. Thanks dad for being there for me.
Absolutely great movie ,with my Love Kevin Costner 💕
Iam. 51. Years. Old. Now.field. of dreams. Is. Till my. Favorite. Movie of. All. Time. Thank you. Kevin. Costner. And James. Early. James. For. Staring in. Great movie for. People. To. See.
Classic movie. Love it.
I lost my Dad 9 years ago. We had a good relationship and to this day, I get choked up at that last scene. I am not an emotional person and it takes a lot to get to that point. This scene does it every time. I think of it every time I play catch with my son.
Same. My dads been gone for 21 years still chokes me up when I watch it till this day.
I played Little League Baseball in the late 50's. . .I loved the game. My Dad and I practiced a lot in the back yard or the small field next to our house. I even had a pro Ball Player from the Cubs come by one day when he was in town to play the Phillies (Bob Rush). He knew my Uncle and so he came by one afternoon, watched me pitch and gave me some pointers. I would have played all through High School and maybe beyond that but I had a Coach in my Freshman year of High School who knew very little about how to bring kids into the next phase of the game. I was having trouble getting enough speed on the ball because I wasn't used to the distance from the mound to the plate. All he knew to tell me was "throw harder". I threw until I finally threw my arm out and never played again.
My Dad died of Cancer in 1973 and I miss him to this day (I'm 72 now). It's hard for me to watch this movie because I know what's coming. . .that one scene. . .when Ray asks his Dad if he wants to play catch I cry uncontrollably. All those years playing ball and practicing with my Dad come rushing back and it's overwhelming. It is a great movie!!
This is a movie that we somehow missed showing to our kids as they were growing up (youngest is now 19). My wife checked it out at the library the other day... and I, too, cried uncontrollably when that final scene came up. I think that, right there, shows what a father-son relationship should be, whether it's with baseball or any other activity where they can just spend time together. My son didn't care for baseball, but loves soccer. Some of my better memories are from either working on soccer technique in the back yard--acting on one simple suggestion from me that he had practiced was the difference in his team winning an important game later--or from trips the two of us took for soccer tournaments and ODP tryouts. I really cherish those memories.
My baseball story takes place in the 70's when I was in grade school --- my Dad signed me up for Little League even though I didnt wanna play because some of the kids on my team were bullies and the coach was an angry jerk --- after one season, he let me quit and just play backyard baseball with my buddies --- my Dad tried to play with us but he didnt have much athletic ability so he just spectated our games --- kind of a corny story but that's why we all love baseball and the impact it had on our lives in some way
This is always the movie I watch when I miss my own Dad, who died the year this movie was made.
This is such a great movie in so many ways. I'll always love it!!!
How smart is this man? Such a wonderful movie, such a wonderful man!
When Ray asks him if he wants to play catch nearly brings me to tears too. I also have my father issues. I was a small kid the last time i saw him somewhere around the late 70s. I was adopted by my step dad after my mom remarried. In 1983 when I was 11, we recognized a phone call that he had died in a trucking accident. I wish we could play catch.
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This movie had it all and hit on all 8 cylinders for many people in many different ways. It's timeless because it told a story about the unspoken realities so many people carry. Top 5 GOAT for me.
One of my top movies of all time, so many memories with my Dad coaching me in baseball and going to countless games with him, I cry every time
Amazing simple movie can move your emotions about life, and Family is always my true love.
this is the kind of movie missing from hollywood today the timeless classics
@JAY OH,
I Can't believe you haven't gotten more likes for your comment. Because I agree with you 100%. Sure their are some good movies out all the time. But nothing that can equally match the star power, the storyline with it's overall mixture of emotions of both happy, funny, sad and loving. And the love for baseball America's greatest halftime sport. And Hollywood hasn't been able to accomplish anything as great as this movie since then. How sad! Sorry for the long reply I'm just feelin' really emotional right now. You know how us ladies are. 😊 Thank you for your time and Have a great day! 🌞
(said people *before* 1989 as well)
I have the video tape, and I just got finish watching it. Awesome, and a touching movie at that. I can watch it over, and over again.
I watched this movie as a young man a bunch of times, and I've watched it since I lost my dad 5 years ago. It finally struck me that the voice wasn't just telling Ray just to build a field. It was telling him to build a mind set of belief in something more than what he had accepted as reality. Only in that state of belief would he be able to reunite with his father.
This was one of mine and my Dad's favorite movies
My favorite part of the movie is when Shoeless Joe looks at Ray, and then Glances over at John, and then says to Ray, ‘If you build it HE will come.’
My favorite part is right after that line, it's the part that starts my emotions about the movie. Ray says to Shoeless Joe, "It was you!", and Shoeless Joe says "No Ray, it was you", speaking of the voice.
So many lines that went straight to our hearts. “Hey Dad, wanna have a catch”? 🥲❤️
@@nik040271Yup! That’s when I really start 😭😭.
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Thanks
Kevin Coster
AAAWWWW!!This movie is so wonderful and timeless. I'm so happy Burt and Frank are in the great film.🙂
The writer/director Phil Robinson is not credited enough for the amazing piece of art he made.
I’m British, have never visited the USA nor do I have a clue about the rules of baseball, but there is something about Field Of Dreams that caught my imagination, and continues to hold it to this day. I just love the whole story about Ray and the difficult relationship he had with his father, and how the encounter with “the voice” was so persuasive that he ploughed up the field and built a baseball ground and, eventually, the gamble pays off. The actors are all so good, and the tension between Ray and his brother-in-law is really well played. The scene where Timothy Busfield nearly gets knocked out by the batter is hilarious, as is the fact that he can’t see what’s going on and thinks they’re all crazy! Thank you for this look back at such a special film in my life, and some of the cast who made it happen.
a few years ago, I went the distance. and when I changed my shoes into cleats, and stepped across the first base line, I got chills.. it was absolutely amazing. Walking out to the corn.
Love this
Jesus Christ! That’s a new record! I watched the catch scene on this…literally French seconds, and tears are streaming down my face! This film…! 🥹😂❤️
I just watched If You Build It 30 Years of Field of Dreams….a beautiful story. Hearing all about the filming of this movie is fascinating and heartwarming. The actors talking to us…great memoir. ❤️
this movie aside from the untouchables started the GREAT CAREER of Kevin Costner....
All i want to see is the headlights of the cars coming to the field,that would be awesome!if it weren't that I'm stuck in a foreign land i definitely would be in that number..
Those were actual cars and not CGI
I love this movie I've seen it so many times and it still makes me cry and it made my kids cry too jijiji 😍😍😍 What an Amazing well made movie
Perfect, thank you god thank you so much☺
Kevin, ur still the best example of goodness, guyness, thanks!!! 🙏
I watched this on an airplane from Toronto to Amsterdam - a year after my father died. I couldn't stop crying...
I’m so sorry you lost your dad. 😢
Always liked Costner
Beautiful movie
They showed the James Earl Jones speech at Yankee Stadium between innings a few years ago. After the camera focused on James Earl Jones who was in a Corporate Box and the crowd erupted in sustained applause.
Could it have been 2011? He was on Broadway in Driving Miss Daisy with Vanessa Redgrave. I know it was Winter 2010 and Spring 2011. If it was not in April or May it was possibly a different year. That was the year he turned 80. He just turned 93. The voice! A great actor who got the best lines in the movie.
Makes me want to see it again. It is Classic!
I know my Dad would definitely love to have a Field of Dreams moment with his Dad! My Grandfather died when I was 5. My Dad made sure to be the best Dad he could be to me! We've been so close my whole life. He told me he and his Dad had a lot of different interests and personalities. I know he would love to Reunite with his Dad on Earth and grow closer again!
I was 32yrs old & have the movie. The best actors. Now Kevin Costner has turned where the movie was made in des Moines, Iowa.
It was actually made in Dyersville, IA buddy
I don’t watch baseball games on television but I have my team and have seen several movies based on baseball field of dreams, a league of their own and 42 are my favorites in that order! All 3 of these movies are based on either a true story or a book another reason I love these movies is they are told in a different time period and are historically true
Field of Dreams is not a baseball movie. Bull Durham was a baseball movie. This was a movie about the heart and soul of each of us, and the connections that bind us all together. Baseball just marked the time.
Man, to watch it on a big screen on the Field of Dreams! 😊😊
Most of the truly great movies I've seen in the past three or four decades have one thing in common: Kevin Costner is in the cast. It did not hurt to have another favorite, James Earl Jones, in the FIeld cast.
It’s sad that so many of us have issues with our fathers and our sons. Hits home for me.
Wonderful.
I was 10 when this movie came out... always thought it was about just baseball, when i became an adult i realized there was so much more to this movie, I watch this and really tugs at me. all the time!. today i have a 10 year old girl and we watch this movie a lot!
Same age. It was a time when I was still playing little league, and the baseball part of it was exciting to watch, but it was always just... background, y'know? But I loved the movie because baseball was pretty much all I had with my dad. So this movie always resonated with me, even back then. That catch was all I'd really ever have with the man.
The best eternal movie of my life ✨
This movie represents all that was good about Hollywood once, when the script was more important than special effects. This little movie still moves me...
I remember getting lost once on my way to Oakland University in Michigan, and passing a ball game on some field in the middle of nowhere; reminded me of the last scene of the movie.
Great great movie.
Not sure what was better this reunion or having the MLB game this past year in August, that was awesome.
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My father passed away the year this movie came out. It was hard to watch at that time. I'm 55 now and really appreciate this movie.
My father’s father had passed in Oct of ‘88. We were a big baseball family. I was 10. This was the first movie we saw after DaddaMack’s passing. My father passed in Oct 2017. It’s just gut wrenching
@RICHIE 4 HEATHER oh thank you. That’s nice of you
Timothy Busfield is an underrated actor!!
It's August 12, 2021, and the New York Yankees will be playing the Chicago White Sox, in a Major League Game on the Field of Dreams tonight. Can't wait.
It was played on another field near the original field
So glad the Sox won! Not a fan of either team, but since the Sox were involved in the issue of throwing the series it was great they won.
Jesus, Ray Liota's gaze was PIERCING at this age. I cry every time "Doc" can't go back.....Only being a Doctor for a week, THAT would have been a tragedy.
Doc was a ghost who was self-aware --- he knew he was only there to save's Ray's soul
"......I better get going or Alicia's gonna think I have a girlfriend."
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I love you Kevin Coster
Classic
Is this heaven, no, it's Iowa. Classic.
I've saw the film on Netflix and you never get thier to look at it, It's really a great film.
Feild of dreams omg i loved this movie the corn fields i forgot about this movie
The last five minutes of that movie turn me into a puddle.
I’m a big fan of Kelvin Costner and every time I watch. Field of Dreams and Dragonfly I’m always reduced to tears.
He’s an Amazing Actor.
Yes, Dragonfly. I like The Postman.
Amazing concept: those with fond memories of their father get choked up - but so do those who wish they had those memories (i.e. those with absent or not-so-great dads).
❤ love this movie
Its great, its a beautiful human connection and moment. If i had a son or daughter id take them to that place for a catch.
But the real magic is that you don't need to go to Iowa to have that moment with your children. It can happen in your own backyard.
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What a poignant film, the ending still gets me all these years later, reminds me of playing catch with my late Dad...
This is awesome
Timeless classic ❤️
Timothy Busfield played baseball in college (ETSU - Johnson City TN)
Yep / I’m from JC and that’s a well known fact among us 40-80 yo folks
im glad the three could get together because a 1000 years from now if we all can plan a future, people will watch this
If someone told you the premise of this movie, you'd say "that's so dopey and corny and couldn't possibly be a movie - much less a good one". And yet...it all works. That's magic.
The producers talk in a special feature about being turned down again, and again, and again before being able to get it made.
That's baseball.