Ray and Annie attend a PTA meeting, where she argues against someone who is trying to ban books by Terence Mann, a controversial author and activist from the 1960s. The voice, meanwhile, urges Ray to 'ease his pain.' He warns the couple they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land.

Annie's brother, Mark, can't see the players. Several months pass, and just as Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless Joe reappears, asking if others can play, and returns with the seven other Black Sox players. Believing in him, Annie lets him plow under part of their corn crop to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.Īs Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. 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 (who in real life died in 1951) standing in the middle. Troubled by his broken relationship with his late father John, a devoted baseball fan, Ray fears growing old without achieving anything. Ray Kinsella lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa.

In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score and Best Adapted Screenplay. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster (in his final film role) also star. 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. Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Canadian novelist W.

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