Paging Lakista McCuller and CC Harrison...
...we're gonna need you guys tomorrow night.
Today's sports movie:
#4--Field of Dreams (1989)
You can't beat Kevin Costner hearing voices. Just as A League of Their Own was a sports movie with chicks in it, this is a fairy tale with a sports wrapping. Iowa farmer and huge baseball fan Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this to mean that if he plows under his crop to build a baseball diamond, the unfairly-accused "Shoeless" Joe Jackson will once more be allowed to play baseball. He builds the field and Jackson (or Jackson's ghost) shows up. However, the voice doesn't stop. It leads Kinsella to kidnap his favorite author, engage in 17 years worth of backward time travel, and pick up a hitchhiking baseball player from 67 years ago. In the end, it leads him back home, where he is able to purge the regret of a poor relationship with his father, who has been allowed to play on the field with other big-league players from years past. Just a feel-good movie all the way around. Notable for James Earl Jones as the author and Ray Liotta as "Shoeless" Joe.
Memorable Quote:
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella: No, it's Iowa.
Today's Musical Selection
Boston--More Than a Feeling
Today's sports movie:
#4--Field of Dreams (1989)
You can't beat Kevin Costner hearing voices. Just as A League of Their Own was a sports movie with chicks in it, this is a fairy tale with a sports wrapping. Iowa farmer and huge baseball fan Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this to mean that if he plows under his crop to build a baseball diamond, the unfairly-accused "Shoeless" Joe Jackson will once more be allowed to play baseball. He builds the field and Jackson (or Jackson's ghost) shows up. However, the voice doesn't stop. It leads Kinsella to kidnap his favorite author, engage in 17 years worth of backward time travel, and pick up a hitchhiking baseball player from 67 years ago. In the end, it leads him back home, where he is able to purge the regret of a poor relationship with his father, who has been allowed to play on the field with other big-league players from years past. Just a feel-good movie all the way around. Notable for James Earl Jones as the author and Ray Liotta as "Shoeless" Joe.
Memorable Quote:
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella: No, it's Iowa.
Today's Musical Selection
Boston--More Than a Feeling
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