Field of Dreams

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson

By Nell Minow

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), who grew up in New York and went to college at Berkeley, stands in the middle of his first Iowa corn crop and hears a voice say, "If you build it, he will come." He begins to understand that this means he must plow under the corn crop and build a baseball field so that Shoeless Joe Jackson, barred from baseball since 1919 and dead for years, can play on it. Ray and his wife (Amy Madigan) know this is a crazy thing to do, but they do it. And "Shoeless"Joe Jackson does show up, with his teamates. Jackson had been the hero of Ray's father, a former minor leaguer, with whom Ray had never been able to connect ...