Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams, motion picture about an Iowa farmer’s mystical encounter with major league baseball players, based on a novel by W. P. Kinsella. Released in 1989, the film stars Kevin Costner as the farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears a mysterious voice instructing him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. After Kinsella creates the ball field, the spirits of the 1919 Chicago White Sox appear and play ball. These players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (played by Ray Liotta), never got to play major league baseball again after they threw the 1919 World Series.

Director

• Phil Alden Robinson

Cast

• Kevin Costner (Ray Kinsella)
• Amy Madigan (Annie Kinsella)
• Gaby Hoffmann (Karin Kinsella)
• Ray Liotta (Shoeless Joe Jackson)
• Timothy Busfield ( (Mark)
• James Earl Jones (Terence Mann)
• Burt Lancaster (Dr. 'Moonlight' Graham)
• Frank Whaley (Archie Graham)
• Dwier Brown (John Kinsella)
• James Andelin (Feed store farmer)
• Mary Anne Kean (Feed store lady)
• Fern Persons (Annie's mother)
• Kelly Coffield (Dee, Mark's wife)
• Michael Milhoan (Buck Weaver)
• Steve Eastin (Eddie Cicotte)
• Charles Hoyes (Swede Risberg)
• Art La Fleur (Chick Gandil)
• Lee Garlington (Beulah, Angry mother)
• Mike Nussbaum (Principal)
• Larry Brandenburg (PTA heckler)
• Mary McDonald Gershon (PTA heckler)
• Robert Kurcz (PTA heckler)
• Don John Ross (Boston butcher)
• Bea Fredman (Boston Yenta)
• Geoffrey Nauffts (Boston pump jockey)
• Anne Seymour (Chisolm Newspaper publisher)
• C. George Baisi (Man in bar)
• Howard Sherf (Man in bar)
• Joseph Ryan (Man in bar)
• Joe Glasberg (Costumer)
• Brian Frankish (Clean-shaven umpire)
• Jeffrey Neal Silverman (Clean-shaven center fielder)

Quote

• Archie Graham (to Ray Kinsella): “I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have that chance, just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down and, just as he goes into his windup, make him think you know something he doesn’t. That’s what I wish for.”