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The baseball ground is an absolute beauty, complete with
lights, and eventually, complete with ghostly baseball players
who return to their physical bodies to again play the game
they loved.
There are the suspended members of the Chicago Black Sox,
banned for throwing a World Series Championship, Shoeless
Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) who was caught up in the scandal
and other baseball-loving individuals.
It seems to Kinsella and his family that his field is a healing
ground that can help ease the pain of tortured souls and just
as they settle in to helping the baseballers the voice sends
him on a journey with no apparent purpose.
On the way he meets Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones), a grumpy
60s activist and writer who is fed up with people bothering
him and a small-town doctor (Burt Lancaster) who never had
a chance to bat in the Major League.
Field of Dreams is very much a mystical journey into
trusting your instincts and believing in a power or powers
that move in unseen ways.
The actors are simply terrific. Costner is at his screen
best, Amy Madigan is wonderful as his fiesty wife, and James
Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster add so much character
to their roles that they take over the scenes in which they
appear.
The transfer is fine, but not perfect, and certainly the
audio could have been much better used - particularly with
the whispered voices.
Well scripted, beautifully photographed and filled with terrific
actors, Field of Dreams is an excellent way to set
aside the rigours of real life and get a real spiritual boost.
Conclusion: Movie 90%, Extras 80%
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