Factual error: Joe Jackson batted left-handed in real life, not right-handed as Ray Liotta portrayed. He also threw right-handed and not left-handed like it shows when Kevin Costner is hitting him fly balls to left field.
Field of Dreams (1989)
1 review
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan
Your rating
Average rating
(7 votes)
I watched this movie on Netflix.
This movie is good, but I don't get the absolute love people seem to have for it. It's good, but I didn't find it amazing. It was cheesy and sappy as hell. And I kinda wish they explained what was actually going on with that cornfield more.
Good performances, good writing and intrigue... but kinda just good to OK. I sort of feel this movie is overrated.
So a man hears voices when in his corn field to build a baseball field, and after he does the ghosts of old players start appearing there to play baseball. And sends the main guy on a quest to help an author and some other characters. Interesting idea on paper... but I kinda think this one needed more time in the oven to really have that hook.
Again not a bad movie, I liked it plenty fine. I just don't understand why it seems to be so loved.
Mistake Status: No plans to do this one.
More mistakes in Field of Dreams
Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. 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. Oh... People will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
Trivia: The town in Iowa that the movie was filmed in was Dyersville. The actual house and farm used in the movie are about 2 miles outside of town and are open to the public.
Question: At the end of the movie, the Voice is credited as Himself. Who was really responsible for doing the voice that sent Ray on his journey?
Answer: It was actually his own voice (Kevin Costner) that sent him on the journey. At the end of the movie there's even the part where Ray is recalling the voices he heard and turned to Shoeless Joe Jackson and says, "It was you". At which point Joe Jackson turns around and says, "No Ray. It was you".