Field of Dreams is a movie directed by Phil Alden Robinson in 1989 and based on the book Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, first published in 1982. The movie features Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, Burt Lancaster, and others.
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Storyline
36-year old Ray Kinsella lives with his wife Annie and daughter Karin on their Iowa corn farm. He is troubled by the relationship with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan, and constantly fears growing old without ever achieving anything. Walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, ‘If you build it, he will come’. Ray believes if he builds a baseball field, Shoeless Joe, whom his father idolized, can play baseball again.
Movie vs Book
Year
1989
Minutes
107
Movie Rate
7.50
Source: IMDb
Movie
Field of Dreams
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Country: USA
Year: 1989
Length: 1h47m
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Year
1982
Pages
224
Book Rate
7.94
S: Goodreads
Book
Shoeless Joe
Author: W.P. Kinsella
Country: Canada
First published in: 1982
Length: 224 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter, Actor)
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