Field of Dreams
Location
5904 York Rd, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21212
5904 York Rd, Baltimore, MD 21212-3026, United States
Wednesday, June 18 7pm
Sunday, June 22 10am
Monday, June 23 4pm
Despite a happy family life, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) is left musing over lost idealism and a squandered relationship with his father, a former baseball player now dead. Hearing a disembodied voice urging ‘If you build it, he will come’, he is propelled on a quest which initially involves putting a baseball pitch in the middle of his crop. This in turn heralds the arrival of ghostly baseball players – including the infamous Shoeless Joe Jackson, implicated in the fixing of the 1919 World Series. Taken in bare outline, the plot may appear faintly ridiculous; but this often beautiful film (John Lindley’s cinematography is breathtaking) – using baseball as a metaphor for other issues, namely the bonding or lack of it between father and son – embraces qualities which are skilfully amplified and not sentimentalised. Writer/director Robinson has embellished WP Kinsella’s novel to examine the ideological conflict between the ’60s and the ’80s; together with moments of dry humour and fine performances, the political element lends the film gravity sufficient to counterbalance any sense of whimsy. Pure magic. (TimeOut)
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Public · Hosted by The Senator Theatre
