Kevin Costner’s beloved film, adapted from W.P. Kinsella’s novel, is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
The film that helped propel a Hollywood icon to fame, a star-studded fantasy picture cherished by both audiences and critics alike, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Based on the novel Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella, it tells the fantastical tale of a farmer who builds a baseball diamond amongst his crops, allowing the spirits of long-departed baseball legends to gather and play.
Kevin Costner took on the central role of Iowa farmer Ray in the blockbuster Field of Dreams.
Joining him in the ghostly baseball narrative are Ray Liotta and Shoeless Joe Jackson, James Earl Jones as Terence Mann, Burt Lancaster in his final on-screen role as Doc Archibald Graham, and Amy Madigan as Annie.
Released in 1989 and helmed by director Phil Aiden Robinson, Field of Dreams was adapted from WP Kinsella’s celebrated novel Shoeless Joe.
Beyond its remarkable commercial triumph, the film also garnered widespread critical praise, reports the Express.
One critic wrote at the time: “A work so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion.”
The picture received three Academy Award nominations, encompassing Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
To this day, Field of Dreams maintains an impressive 88 per cent approval rating on the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
One reviewer says: “This is a story about passion, not just for baseball, but also a passion to do something with our one precious life even if people think it’s crazy.”
Another wrote: “It’s hard to imagine a cynicism so hardened that it won’t crumble at the sight of a lush green baseball field nestled into an Iowa cornfield and at this movie’s final inspiring scene of youth and innocence recaptured.”
While a third contributed: “Too idiosyncratic and witty merely to wallow in sentimentality, Field Of Dreams will surely stand as a classic update of what made Old Hollywood so magical. It’s still a wonderful life.”
The picture also holds a treasured position in the affections of enthusiasts.
One posted: “This film is pure magic! I have seen this movie probably a hundred times in my life.. I’ve just finished watching it again tonight and I still get the same feeling I got the first time I saw it.”
Another said: “One of the greatest films ever made. Men, get ready to cry. My favorite movies are ones that elicit an emotional response. “If you build it, he will come.””
Meanwhile, a third added: “This is still probably my favorite movie of all time after seeing it over 30 years ago. A lesson in the value of having faith and valuing family along with paying a homage to baseball when it truly was Americas pastime, it is sentimental nonsense in the best way, as Ray says to Terrence Mann when returning back to Iowa to after picking up Moonlight Graham, “It’s Perfect!””
Field of Dreams is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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