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Reconciling with the Father

Field of Dreams is a fantasy-drama about baseball, the pursuit of a dream, and reconciliation between a father and son. Though the film borders on the thoroughly unbelievable (with a "voice" talking from a corn field, old baseball players walking in and out of a center-field "heaven," and time travel back to a town in 1972), it somehow gets us to suspend our disbelief because of its thematic realism.

Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, is on the way to reconciling with his long-dead father—though he doesn't know it yet. About halfway through the movie he's driving his rustic red Volkswagen van down back roads in the ...