Part of Weekend Classics: Batter Up!
Wed, Mar 26 at 7:00pm: Introduction from Willie Steele, professor of English at Lipscomb University, editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and author of two books about Shoeless Joe author W.P. Kinsella | BUY TICKETS
“If you build it, they will come.” Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is inspired by a voice he can’t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a baseball field. Also starring Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones and Amy Madigan.
“So smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion…. An idealistic film that treasures America's icons — baseball, the farmlands, Jimmy Stewart heroes, even the 1960's — and carries their emotional weight into the 1980's.” —Caryn James, New York Times (Apr 21, 1989) “This is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in — a movie about dreams…. FIELD OF DREAMS will not appeal to grinches and grouches and realists. It is a delicate movie, a fragile construction of one goofy fantasy after another.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Apr 21, 1989)
