One of those movies that definitely hasn’t lost any of its magic. Walking the outfield of the actual field of dreams and swinging on the porch swing, it was palpable even all these years later. In the wise words of James Earl Jones, “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.”
The film itself is wacky when you strip away the veneer and shouldn’t work as well as it does, but is one of those serendipitous moments of lightning captured in a bottle… captured on film. A story of human connection, parenting, and Americana.. it’s hard to beat. James Earl Jones and Kevin Costner in a sports movie is a cheat code.
And if you’re ever driving through Iowa… I highly recommend taking a turn up the seemingly random driveway, toward the lights in the cornfield.
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Brett Garten, Movie Extraordinare 