Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)

I love baseball and have a great relationship with my father, yet found this to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

1. Ridiculously convoluted plot. It had promise for about 10 minutes then completely fell apart. Ease his pain? Seriously. What did Burt Lancaster's and James Earl Jones' characters have anything to do with the movie? Was Jones written into the plot just to spew off a few contrived lines about baseball? And the doctor "crossing the line" scene was a joke at best. The entire point of the plot was to somehow lead to father and son playing catch. Wow, what a creative, inspiring ending.

2. OVERACTING. Kevin Costner is a marginal actor at best, and the whiny frustrated farmer role is laughable in this movie. Should I laugh when he gets "frustrated" with the voice? And Busfield's rant/shake the daughter scene was pathetic. And the "Oh my god! Where did these ballplayers suddenly come from?" expression was priceless.

3. Cheesy. Tries way, way too hard to force the father-son-baseball-bonding theme down everyone's throat. If Jones or Costner or the doctor would have spouted off one more sappy line about baseball, I might have thrown up. But I guess some people like the overdramatic garbage.

After watching this movie with my dad, I felt bonded to him in that we were both cracking up laughing at just how bad the movie turned out to be. I had high hopes after Bull Durham, but they were shot down about 20 minutes into this stinker.

"Ease his pain." That just about sums it up.

I just watched "Field of Dreams" for the very first time tonight on cable. My Dad died this past November and for whatever reason, I felt compelled to watch this movie tonight. Now after doing so, I know I will be ordering it from Amazon.com. What a beautiful, moving movie this was! People talk about it like it is about a son and his Dad. But it can just as easily be about a daughter and her Dad ... like it was for me. I remember when it first came out; I wasn't interested in seeing it as it was just a baseball movie. I found out tonight that it is so very much more than just that. Check it out and be sure to bring a big box of kleenex!

I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it, my VHS tape broke I watched it some many times, so very glad it is out on DVD, If your fighting with your son and he is old enough to understand, tie him to a chair and make him watch this movie with you so someday it's not to late to make up or make piece with your son for what ever reason, because in real life dad can not come back to ease his pain or yours.

First of all let me say that the Quality on this HD-DVD is with what you would expect from all of them.. Excellent. Kevin Costner is a good guy, and
one of my Favorite actor. Seeing it again in HD is believing it. This movie
was also very inspirational. It helps you believe no matter what others TELL you, you will have to see things for yourself, in your own eyes. Great Movie to my collection.

This movie proves realists can become dreamers...LOL
This was a great movie with Kevin Costner,
James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta.
The story starts with a Husband & wife buying
a ranch to become farmers.
One day as the man(Kevin Costner) is walking in his corn field
checking out his corn he hears a voice say "If you build it he will come".
So he calls out to his wife thinking she might have said something to him
nope she didn't say anything, so he keeps on walking and all the sudden he hears it again"If you build he will come".
So he starts seeing these visions of a baseball field where his corn field is, so he talks his wife into building a baseball field in the corn field.
He keeps on wait and no one comes, then finally around baseball season these baseball players started showing up and playing baseball on the field and they weren't just any players they were players that had played back in the past when baseball was still a game.
So The husband goes a trip to man that was a baseball player back then and was still alive.
They go to a baseball game and the guy hears the voice again and his friend heard it too.
Thats when the guy starts to believe, so they go try to find a another but find out he's dead, but the guy played by Kevin Costner is walking down a street and meets the guy that is supposedly Dead and he asks him to come with him, but he doesn't come.
Then the way home (Kevin) and (James) find a guy hitchhiking to baseball camp, it the same guy (Kevin) talked to the night before but a younger version.
So they get home and his brother in law comes over to talk to him about saling the farm to him, cause while (Kevin) was gone he bought the note on the farm.
(Kevin) tells him no and the brother in law gets mad and pick his daughter and on accident drops her from the bleachers they were standing
the guy that picked up on the way home was a doctor so he comes run to help the little girl.
When he past the baseball diamond he became an old man he couldn't go back, but he helped save the little girl.
All the sudden the bother in law sees all the players and tells him not to sell.
Then they will ask (James)to come with them,the baseball players.
As they're walking off (Ray) said if you build it he will come.
He turns to see the catcher taking of his gear, It's his father.
I rate this Movie a 10 from 1to10!!