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Just watched Field of Dreams for the first time as an adult. There is A LOT more going on there than I remembered from seeing it as a kid. What a film.

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First time I saw this film, I’d rented it (VHS) and watched with my (then) 10 year old daughter. When it ended, we turned to each other and at the same time, said, “We GOTTA watch that again! So we rewound it and watched it again.

Dude, the movie that hit me like that was Parenthood! First watched it pre-kids. Then watched it when my kids were, like, teenagers and I'd gone through some adult shit. Hit completely different!

“MY WHOLE LIFE IS ‘HAVE TO’…” Not sure that quote is 100% accurate, but I remember seeing the movie when I was drowning in responsibilities and thinking “that’s it”. Every minute I had somewhere I HAD to be. And now that “have to” is in the past, I miss it. How insane is that?

Took our kids to go play there on the movie location as part of a family out west (from Detroit) road trip 20 years ago when they were in elementary school and in their baseball/softball years. Still a treasured family memory - and the movie is more poignant for all of us as we age.

Oh man this movie is great… you have to get past Costner’s “aw shucks”. He really was a horrible actor who was gifted to be in great films either way great writers and great actors. But damn does it work in this one.

It's posterity and pride James Earl Jones is amazing as is pretty much every actor in that thing. An idea so preposterous is made to be tempting. I just think everyone involved loved baseball and that's why it turned out so good

My father died relatively young, 50 when I was 21, one last game of catch with your dad scene leaves me in tears whenever I watch the movie. If only… It’s easily the best baseball movie ever and a great movie overall. The all star game should be played in a corn field in Iowa. Just my opinion.

How did it take you this long?!? Unapologetically schmaltzy and Capraesque, but how can one not love that? If your eyes are dry when the music swells just as Ray catches the ball from his dad, then you are not human. People will come, Ray. Is this heaven? It's Iowa.

My hometown. One of the Lansing daughters babysat for us and would take us out the the farm to run around. Still have some trauma from what I saw in the milking barn. My folks were in the last shot with all the cars.

I grew up near where they filmed that and watched them film some of it. I was 9. I actually thought they were doing a tv movie. But I recall being excited the guy that did Darth Vader was there. Didn’t see him unfortunately. If you had told me then though…

Here is a twist few people know of: the Author 'WP Kinsella' was Canadian who lived in a small town I grew up in, in British Columbia called White Rock - just on the Canadian side of the border in BC. Yup, this pivotal fictional piece of American history was written by a Canadian. You're welcome.

My father‘s been gone for a decade, and I argue with him in my head almost every day. So much unresolved. The concept of being able to see him again, shake his hand as a grown-ass man is almost overwhelming. We’d be working on an engine in the shop, not having a catch, but it’s the same thing

I have a good one for you. The book is on Internet Archive. You know when Ray goes looking for Doc Graham, he actually walks into 1972 and comes out under a movie marquee for The Godfather. That's not in the book. ....

My family is from Iowa. My Dad played college ball. I played baseball as well. Dyersville was in our HS conference. I still have his signed ball from when he played in the JUCO World Series. We played catch. A lot. I am glad he got to see me become a man. All I wanted was to do right by him.

Major League is the greatest baseball movie for obvious reasons but Field of Dreams was so iconic they started playing a baseball game there every year.

Yeah! They gave away free tickets to anyone that was actually alive the last time the Indians won a pennant that year! It was pretty cool!

Well now I’m getting emotional. My favorite sport is baseball but whenever my kids ask me to kick the ball around, go for a bike ride, whatever, I hear that French horn in the background lol

If you think Moonlight Graham was impressive, check out his brother Frank Porter Graham. Historian, professor, president of the University of North Carolina, president of the UNC system, US Senator, and UN mediator in the India-Pakistan conflict.

It was four years after I did not make it in Minor League spring training. I was with my now wife, and I lost it at that scene. Hit me like a ton of bricks. First time in my life I cried like that in public.

My kid wants to watch the Netflix special- I didn't even know the game was an annual thing. We watched the movie trailer. I told my husband this looks weird. Then we watched the book banning clip & I jumped off the couch, screaming "FUCK YEAH ANNIE!!!" So yeah we'll probably watch it this evening.

Thank you for this post - it inspired me to watch the film today. A movie I loved as a teen is so much more as someone in their 50's. Thanks Aaron!

I love that they preserved the movie set. And then built an actual functioning ballpark next to it. I also love that MLB has been doing a Field of Dreams game. This years game is this weekend.

My favorite baseball movie ever but my two college baseball playing sons are hung up on Money Ball. I simply told them, "Wait until you're a father, then you'll get it."

It is an impressive film for its emotional content. I was close to 30 when it came out in 1989 and was floored by the ending. I can't imagine the difference you experienced in your viewings as a kid and now. Life is a great teacher.

I first saw it when it came out from the back of a pickup at a drive thru In W.Virginia. For a young backpacking Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 so many iconic themes in one night. Went hunting for a bookstore and a ‘feeling’ took me down a back street to find a bookshop and said book. Felt as if book was calling me ❤️😂

I highly recommend the book, "Shoeless Joe," on which it is based. I had read it when I saw the movie and the movie has ever since seemed to me like weak tea by comparison.

Without getting into spoilers, what was most compelling for me about the book -- that the movie mostly lacked -- was the darkness and confusion of Ray's journey. Then there was the matter of the famous, then-living real-life character near the center of the story.

I watch it every time I come across it on TV. Part of me wants it to be true - that you can get a second chance to have a back-and-forth conversation with people you’ve lost in life, letting them see grandkids they never met, see how things are going, etc.

I was umpiring behind the dish the last Sunday and the catcher, pulling on his mask, asked me for my favourite baseball movie. My brain spun (ball). “Bull Durham?”. Him: “Yeah. Kind of a love movie.” (strike) “What about you?”. Him: “Bad News Bears.” OF COURSE!!

It was a story about a boy and his dad coming to terms with regret and playing catch. I was three days away from payday and I had $3 in my wallet. So I took my daughter to a discount theater and paid a dollar each to see the movie. Kevin Costner is still my favorite actor.

The way John Kinsella's voice breaks when he says, "I'd like that"....just as the music swells...and all you can hear is "Ease his pain" in your head... Tears. More tears. Turning to choking sobs. Every. Single. Time.

Fun fact: Costner was mortified at first by that line because he said “play catch” like everyone outside of NYC and thought people would think he’s an idiot saying “have a catch”.

Lately I watch films that give me comfort -tired of hate, misogyny, racism, & violence. If a movie has a horrible ending I cannot watch it even if I previously viewed & enjoyed. I’m disappointed in what people have allowed to happen in our social contract. This movie feels great to watch.❤️

The acting is incredible. No way to get through it without crying. The only thing I’ve gotten stuck on is why James Earl Jones would be nostalgic for a time when black people couldn’t play in the league. It’s never directly addressed in the film.

Some years ago I was driving through Iowa and realized I was close to the farmhouse site where the movie was shot. It’s something of a museum. It was winter, so the place was deserted, but I enjoyed stopping by.

It is in Dyersville, IA, is you are ever in that area. Dyersville is not very big and there are signs for the farmhouse and adjacent field used in the movie

I just reread The Old Man and the Sea which I had hated when force-fed it a high school lit course. I was legit shocked by how much my perception had changed. Magnificent. Brutal. Heart-rending. It made me reflect on how much I have changed.

You are absolutely right! I've seen the movie so many times I can hear the music in my head (and James Earl Jones' laugh as he walks into the corn) and I have an immediate emotional response and tear up. It's so incredibly beautiful.