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When Annie and Ray are laying in the newly completed ball field, and Annie is drinking a glass of wine, it is sunset. The sun has gone down and the sky is just the faintest of pink on the horizon, the rest of the sky is a strong blue tone. Yet, when the camera cuts to a long shot, same angle of Ray and Annie, the horizon is now a brilliant red-orange taking up nearly a third of the sky. See more...

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During the filming of the cornfield scenes where Ray first hears the voice, the filmmakers had problems with the corn growing. When they initially wanted to film the scenes the corn was too short, so they waited a couple of weeks. When they were ready to shoot, the corn was too tall. Kevin Costner had to walk on wooden planks, so he could be seen in the cornfield (Director Phil Alden Robinson discussed this in the 10th anniversary edition of the film). See more...

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Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta (add more)

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Early on, one of the ballplayers quotes a line from the 1939 movie script of "The Wizard of Oz" ("I'm melting"). These ballplayers are from 1919. This version of "The Wizard of Oz" was not released until 1939. In the book, the witch says "In a minute I shall melt away." [The ball players PLAYED in 1919. That would mean that many of them were still alive in 1939 - thus were around when the movie was popular.]
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About half way through the movie, when Ray Kinsella goes to Boston to find Terrance Mann, he stops at a gas station for directions to Mann's apartment. The gas station attendant tells him it is in the building without chickens in the window two blocks down the street on the right. When Kinsella is approaching Mann's apartment building, he is looking at buildings on his left, and in fact goes into a building on his left. [The gas station attendant tells Ray that Terrance's place is down the street on the right. In other words, the street was on the right side of where they were. This doesn't imply that Terrance's home is on the right side of that street. In other words, Terrance's home was obviously on the left side of the street that was to the right of where they were.]
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Ray goes to Chisholm, MN in the present day, and finds out that Dob Graham has died. Later that evening he leaves his hotel room, and finds himself "transported" back to 1972 (which is clear thanks to the license plate and "Godfather" film) to chat with the elder Doc Graham. He should be transported to 1965 or earlier to have this conversation. Later on he meets the younger Archie Graham on the road. Why would Ray be transported to 1972 if not to meet the elder Doc Graham when he was still alive? It makes no sense. [No, you've missed the point of this part of the movie. First, Archie Graham is NOT alive. The Archie Graham that Terrance and Ray pick up on the road is a ghost of Doc Graham, of his younger self when he was playing baseball. Ray and Terrance even look at each other when Archie introduces himself in the car, because he shouldn't be there in the first place. Ray even remarks that Archie's mentioning of teams being all around the midwest is a tradition that has not been done for years. Archie's younger self simply allows Doc Graham to have a chance to be at bat and run the bases (i.e., his dream) in a baseball game, a game played on Ray's field. Second, Doc Graham was alive in 1972. Ray was transported back in time to 1972. So, Ray and Doc Graham could have spoken with each other then. So, transporting him back to 1972 is perfectly acceptable for having their conversation, by the rules of the film.]
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After Ray (and Terrance) see the "Moonlight Graham" message on the scoreboard, the scoreboard goes completely blank. At Major League Baseball games, there is always something on the scoreboard. [The scoreboard wasn't completely blank prior to Ray receiving the message. When Ray received the message, he saw something on the scoreboard that no one else saw. After receiving the message, he could have seen a blank scoreboard, which may not have been what everyone else saw. In the movie, we see the scoreboard from Ray's point of view ... not from everyone else's.]
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In the scene where Annie calls Ray to tell him dinner is ready, after Ray goes inside, Annie is putting some frozen French Fries on a cookie sheet, so dinner is obviously not ready. [Calling someone for dinner can also mean it is time for them to come "help" with dinner.]
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Moonlight Graham had to cross the foul line in order to help save Katie, and according to the plot, anyone who crosses the line can't return to the game. But shortly thereafter, when he begins walking back toward the ballplayers, you can see that some of the other ballplayers have also crossed the foul line. [It isn't the foul line they can't cross, it's the outer threshold of the entire field. Moonlight Graham is the only one who walks out too far.]
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At the end of the film, while Ray is contemplating signing away his farm, Terrence Mann gives this big show-stopping speech about why he shouldn't saying, among other things: "...The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again..." Great speech, but why would Mann feel all that sentimental about that era, when baseball was still a good quarter of a century away from Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. [Terrance Mann was a writer in the 60's the film didn't take place in the 60's. The film was a current story circa 1988. So what is the point?]
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Near the end, when Kevin Costner's daughter chokes on a hot dog she is actually eating popcorn and not a hot dog. [She's eating a hot dog too. It's in her right hand when she says "People will come" and when she falls.]
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In the scene where Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones first arrive at Fenway Park, you can see sunlight entering the area where they are about to order 'a dog and a beer.' But they are supposedly attending a night game. (The scoreboard clock reads 10:32). [If you ever go to a game at Fenway it starts at 7:30, and since they were just entering the stadium, that would still be daylight. AND if they were sitting on the First Base side the sun would be directly over their shoulders as they ordered the beer and a dog. If you sit in the Bleachers at Fenway (Right Field) during a night game you have sun directly in your eyes for two innings. So this entry is wrong. However, the time is wrong wrong in this scene, the clock on the field says 10:32 and it was only the second inning. Unless they had a HUGE rain delay this wouldn't work out.]
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When young Moonlight Graham first arrives at the field, he recognises Gil Hodges. Graham had his stint in the majors in 1905, and would not have recognised Hodges, who played in the 1950s. [Perhaps Archie "remembered" Gil Hodges from when he was the doctor, practicing medicine in Minnesota, and hearing news of Gil Hodges on the radio.]
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