Well, we’re coming up
on the World Series, so why not look back at one of my favorite baseball
movies?
If you’ve seen this
one, then you probably don’t need a detailed recap. However if you haven’t seen
this film then I won’t spoil it, because it really is an enjoyable journey. I’ll
just offer the setup and some overall thoughts.
Released in 1989, the
film stars Kevin Costner as an Iowa corn farmer named Ray Kinsella. One Evening
while walking through his cornfield, he hears a voice whisper "If you
build it, he will come." After eventually seeing a vision of a baseball
diamond in the field, he decides that he has plow down his crops and build a
baseball field. Finally one night, after a couple of months pass without
anything happening, a mysterious man in a Baseball uniform appears. It turns
out that the man is deceased baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson (played by
Ray Liotta). He asks Ray if it’s ok to bring others to the field to play, and
returns the next night with other deceased players.
As the film moves along
Ray receives other cryptic clues like “ease his pain”, “go the distance” and even
the statistics for a player named Archibald Graham, who played one game for the
Giants in 1922, on a scoreboard. This takes him from Iowa to Massachusetts to
Minnesota and back to Iowa in search for the ultimate meaning to it all. As
stated earlier, it’s all about the journey. There’s some good drama, a few
surprises, and a really satisfying ending.
It’s a solid,
enjoyable movie and I give it a 4.5 out of 5.
Have a suggestion for
a review?
Leave it in the
comments below.
No comments:
Post a Comment