My all-time favorite movie...just ahead of Hoosiers.

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Jan 19, 2021
10:20:57pm

Wally Murph Contributor

Both powerful redemption stories, which just happen to use sports as integral to their stories.

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Wally Murph

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Author

Time

“Hey... Dad! You wanna have a catch?”

CaliWG

1/19/21 9:06pm

Great movie

South_A

1/19/21 9:09pm

Who would say it like that though? I’ve never said “you wanna have a catch”

pink22

1/19/21 9:10pm

Sometimes kids suck at talking. It's pretty realistic.

supertux

1/19/21 9:13pm

It's a northern midwest thing. I'm from Minnesota and it sounded normal to me.

7FootRussian

1/19/21 9:13pm

Me too. My grandfather is from Wisconsin.

CaliWG

1/19/21 9:17pm

Kevin Costner wanted it to say play catch.

Jagger

1/19/21 9:14pm

Because that sounds right

pink22

1/19/21 9:27pm

Mac from Always Sunny would strongly disagree...

EtTuKalante

1/19/21 9:30pm

Watched Field of Dreams last night with my wife

bluelands

1/19/21 9:17pm

I’ve read it

CaliWG

1/19/21 9:19pm

Author also wrote the screenplay

bluelands

1/19/21 9:27pm

One of the few books I've read where the movie is better than the book.

Jagger

1/19/21 9:30pm

I read the book years after I saw the movie. The movie is my all-time favorite.

Loon to the Moon

1/19/21 9:32pm

One of my all time favorite books is “If I Never Get Back”

CaliWG

1/19/21 9:57pm

I'll have to check that one out.

Loon to the Moon

1/20/21 12:33pm

Red stalkings? Sounds like a group of communist serial killers... 😏

EtTuKalante

1/20/21 12:45pm

And it wouldn't be nearly as powerful without James Horner's amazing score swelling in the background. The music makes

BlueBlood94

1/19/21 9:32pm

And Darth Vader going to Fenway.

pink22

1/19/21 9:40pm

"You're a pacifist!"

HuskerFan2

1/19/21 9:54pm

My all-time favorite movie...just ahead of Hoosiers.

Wally Murph

1/19/21 10:20pm

Yep. I don't see "Field of Dreams" as a baseball movie, I see it as a father/son story about redemption that simply uses

BlueBlood94

1/19/21 10:46pm

Yes. Love how they both get a little choked up.

DwigtA2RM

1/19/21 10:47pm

I also get choked up when, just before, he asks about heaven, and after being told "it's the place where dreams come

BlueBlood94

1/19/21 10:56pm

It is amazing how after watching it dozens of times, I still get choked up too

Wally Murph

1/19/21 11:53pm

My son just got a new mission companion from Iowa.

GSwarriorcoug

1/20/21 12:08am

And just like that, they became best friends foreved

South_A

1/20/21 6:38am

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