1989 - Rated PG - 1 hr 47 min
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, James Earle Jones, Ray Liotta
Here's a classic, for you. But watching it now, as an adult, it's kind of a weird movie. I mean, his cornfield talks to him and within the first ten minutes of the movie, he's already figured out what the voice in the corn wants him to do. Build a baseball field, obviously. I remember this taking longer, but it's seriously only the first ten minutes.
So he builds it. They come. "He" comes (Is it Shoeless Joe, the "he"? Or someone else? Hmmm?) And no one ever explains why ghost baseball players come out of the corn and play ball. Or why old men can step over the line and become younger and play ball with them. Or why said old man can't go back once he steps out. The message of this movie still resonates, but it's a little cheesy after all this time. If you can ignore the slight lameness, you'll enjoy it now just as much as you might have before.
For the rest of you, you can just reminisce about when Kevin Costner had a career.
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