Field of Dreams

"Field of dreams" is about the young farmer Ray Kinsella, who follows an inner voice and builds a baseball field in the middle of his farmland. It is his dream that his old baseball hero Shoeless Joe Jackson will materialise on the field. Despite the neighbours' head-shaking and the bank's words of warning, Ray chooses to live out his dream, and the miraculous happens: his idols appear out of the blue. But he is far from finished.

Baseball is admittedly not the film's theme, but in order to be drawn into the film's supernatural, fantastical universe, it helps to harbour a certain fascination with and love of the game. If that is not the case, Field of Dreams may well turn into a tedious affair. The plot in itself is rather slight.