![]() Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. A meditation on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world. ![]() but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. ![]() Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. As just about everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. It is the film that cemented Kevin Costner's status as an all-American screen star, but the story resonates far beyond Costner's handsome appeal. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel Shoeless Joe. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. The scene neatly introduces the name of the 60s radical writer (which in the source book, Shoeless Joe, was JD Salinger – notoriously publicity-shy author of Catcher in the Rye), and it’s in the Seminary Library of the University of Dubuque, University Avenue, that Ray Kinsella researches the reclusive Terence Mann (though the exterior shot is of the University’s Van Vliet Hall).A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema. The school, where Annie Kinsella ( Amy Madigan) stands up against censorship at the PTA meeting, is Drexler Elementary School, Third Avenue in Farley, on Route 20 about six miles east of Dyersville. Take along your bat and ball and play out your dreams at the Field of Dreams Movie Site, 28995 Lansing Road, Dyersville. It’s estimated that, within three years of the film’s release, 60,000 people had made the pilgrimage to Dyersville. But, just as in the movie, visitors came, and the field was restored. The diamond – constructed for the film – straddled two properties, and after filming, half of it was ploughed up and returned to farming. The baseball field that Ray Kinsella ( Kevin Costner) is impelled to build still exists, about four miles northeast of Dyersville, just off Highway 20, west of Dubuque. Most of the film is shot in the area around Dubuque, the oldest city in Iowa, at the northern edge of the state, separated from Illinois and Wisconsin by the Mississippi River. The unlikely supernatural baseball feelgood weepie has provided Iowa with a major tourist attraction. “If you build it, he will come.” promised the mysterious voice. Field of Dreams location: the magical baseball diamond: Lansing Farm, Dyersville, Iowa | Photograph: Flickr © Lumberjacklukee ![]()
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