Films don't get better than field of Dreams. When you got back to the late eighties and early nineties you will find that Kevin Costner was the biggest actor to employ at that time as he starred in lots of major films like Dances with wolves which of course he directed, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, A Perfect World, JFK and Field of Dremas which I think delivers his best performance of all those films.

Costner is Ray who one day takes a walk into his corn field only to hear a voice saying 'If you build it, he will come'. This sends him crazy as it's all he can hear. He thinks on to what the voice maybe wants him to do and let's his feeling be known to his family and the only idea he can come up with is that he should build a baseball pitch in the middle of his field. He does with the backing of his family and nothing comes of it till one night somebody in a 1920's baseball kit turns up on his field out of the blue ready to play Baseball. This happens to be the great Shoeless Joe Jackson who is now dead but has come back to play the game he was once banned from playing. The story unfolds to more odd goings on and sends Ray onto a journey of self discovery with some beautiful moments ahead. Field of dreams is not a film that gets mentioned when it comes to Costner's career but I think it holds his best and most touching performance. Anybody who likes a feel good film like It's a Wonderful Life will ultimately fall in love with this film by the end as the more it goes on the more you find out why Ray was guided to build the pitch and follow the voice which he throughout the film makes no sense of what it he is looking for.

It touches you in all the places and just makes you feel good about yourself and sends an important message out about spending as much time your family as much as you possibly can til it's to late.

Trust me, you cannot go wrong with this film.

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice encouraging him to build a baseball pitch. Everybody thinks that Ray has gone crazy, but with the help of his wife Annie (Amy Madigan), he ploughs the field and constructs the pitch. Ray's dream comes true when he is visited by the spirit of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) together with the other players who had lost their honour after the 1919 scandal when they used to play with the Chicago Black Sox.

Another movie with a plot built around the game of baseball. But this one is very different from MAJOR LEAGUE and BULL DURHAM. Field of Dreams is a film full of fantasy, where it doesn't matter much whether you know or not how baseball is played. Kevin Costner's acting is very good. Alongside Costner, two veteran actors (who appear in only short scenes) stand out : James Earl Jones (as Terence Mann, a writer and political activist) and Burt Lancaster (as 'Doc' Graham, who used to play with the New York Giants). Field of Dreams had 3 Academy Award nominations.