Back in 1989, every single screening of this film in theaters saw huge numbers of grown men above 20 crying like 4 year olds when that line was heard. Pretty much any guy who had ever played catch with his dad or had bonded through baseball was sniffling and wiping away tears when he left the theater.
@@RetroClassic66I saw it in the theater with some friends when it came out. One of my friends had lost her mother unexpectedly several months earlier. She was a mess at the end of the film. As much as it's about the connection between fathers and sons, it transcends to all people who have lost someone whom they'd like one more moment of a shared experience with them. Timeless...
Yes, that part of the movie is rough.... my Dad passed away when I was only 4 ❤ and I'd give anything for a game of catch with him. My Dad was a local baseball star, and I have his scrap book with all of the newspaper clippings. I do love this movie. I miss my Dad, but the ending really wrecks me 💔
Doc Graham was a real person, the old men talking about Doc knew him, and the stories about buying blue hats for his wife were true. I love this movie, I lost my dad 18 years ago, I would give anything to play catch with him one more time.
I lost my Dad in 2001. It seems so far away now that I have to look at photos and play his voice from his voice mail that I recorded right after he passed (not many videos back in the day). I feel like I'm forgetting his face and voice sometimes.
The red haired actor playing Mark is Tim Busfield, show grew up in Okemos Michigan, USA, just a few miles from Lansing , Michigan where I grew up. I cry at the end of this movie everytime. And Fathers Day is June 15 next Sunday. The end always reminds me of how Dad used to play catch with us boys, and then decades later I played catch with my boy and daughter. Then just weeks before dad died at age 82, my 7 year old son was playing catch with him as he sat on a park bench. He couldn't get up and leap for my son's throws and I played catcher. Finally my son threw one above dad's head, he reach up and caught it barehanded. My son was astonished. I said to my son outloud, "That's the man who tuaght me how to throw a baseball, better not mess with him." and my son laughed "yeh that's right." . Dad was gone 3 weeks later. At age 12, my son played little league baseball, and I witnessed him catch a ball in left field, one handed with his glove, leaping in the air, just like his grandfather used to do. I told my son I know you caught that very good, but you did just like grandpa used to, you're just as good as he was." My son said "Maybe he was helping me out on that one." Maybe he was.
Mary, not surprised that you wouldn't know, but Moonlight Graham is played by the legendary Burt Lancaster. This was his last ever film role. He had a remarkable life, performing in the circus in the 1930s before serving in WWII. He then got into films in the 1946, and so began a career that spanned more than 4 decades, and included an Oscar for best actor.
The little girls also starred in the movie “Uncle Buck” alongside with John Candy, Macaulay Culkin and Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams)! Extremely funny, you’ll like it…
One of the very few movies men will leave the theater with tears in their eyes and face. Even to this day, it still affects me. Many sons would love to have that one final perfect moment with their dads before letting them go. Sometimes remembered conversations we had with our dads will hit us like a brick. The last thing my Dad ever said to me was "It's up to you to take care of Mom now." My father's been dead for 14 years. But that last thing he said to me still hits me hard today. Like...right now. 8-( I didn't have to take care of my Mom for very long. She passed 3 months later. Thank you, Mary, for sharing this experience with us. This is one movie that never gets old and holds up even after all these years.
"One of the very few movies men will leave the theater with tears in their eyes and face" One of, not one of the few. Lots of men have, you know... emotions. Emotions they aren't afraid of, or afraid to show.
Kevin Costner said that this movie isn't a sports movie, it's a movie about healing of relationships told through a commen connection that parents and their children often have. I miss having a catch with my pop who passed just after this movie came out.
The first year after shooting the film, farm owner Al Ameskamp grew corn on his property, but then restored his portion of the field the next year and added a souvenir shop. Farmer Don Lansing maintained his property as a tourist destination. He did not charge for admission or parking, deriving revenue solely from his own souvenir shop. By the film's 20th anniversary, approximately 65,000 people visited each year. In July 2010, the farm containing the "Field" was listed for sale. It was sold on October 31, 2011, to 'Go The Distance Baseball', LLC for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around $5.4m. In 2021, major league baseball veteran Frank Thomas became the majority owner.
16:39 "I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties." Every time I hear this, I want Annie to reply "No, but your husband is!" After all the times I've seen this, I still tear up when Ray meets his father. Mary, if you really want to understand the role baseball played in shaping American culture in the 20th century, you should check out Ken Burns' great nine-part Baseball documentary. It's a must-watch for any fan and, for the baseball novice, a good introduction to the game, and how it came to be known as "America's pastime".
No we didn’t. But we should have. Our state motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” They did, however use the line in several PR campaigns.
I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released. Imagine Mary, a theater that was about 90% full, with probably 55-60% men inside. Nearly every guy in that theater was trying so hard to keep it together. Then Ray says, "Hey dad, you want to have a catch?" There's an explosion; emotionally, we are gone. From those who have lost their father, or those who have lost a child, even those who just fondly remember moments from their childhood, this movie brought feelings so special and pure. Baseball is often the link between fathers and sons in the United States. A couple of tidbits for you, Mary; The older gentlemen in the bar that were telling Terry about Doc Graham were not actors. In fact, they knew the real Doc Graham and were telling real stories about him. Much of the backstory about Moonlight Graham was factual. He only played the one game and never got the chance to hit. Instead of playing in 1922, it was 1902. Ray Liotta, who played shoeless Joe Jackson, batted righthanded. The real life Joe Jackson was lefthanded. The filmmakers were concerned that baseball fans watching the film would be upset by the change. Normally, baseball fans would be very critical of such an oversight, but the nature of the film and the magic that flowed made everyone suspend their disbelief and enjoy the magic.
I believe the movie that the little girl is watching is a Jimmy Stewart movie called Harvey which is about a free-spirited alcoholic who has a 6-foot rabbit as an imaginary friend.
What a pleasant surprise. One of the reasons I love reactions channels like yours is you never know when you'll get to share a classic like this. The perfect reaction to a beautiful movie .....Thanks Mary
A wonderful choice Mari. This is arguably one of the best sports movies of all time. Great sports movies are not really about the game itself, but about the lessons we can learn from the sport. So glad you enjoyed this one Marijchu.
Most people's big moment is the playing catch at the end, but mine is when Doc walks off the field to help the little girl. It just gets me on so many levels.
I never make it through this movie without tears at the end. My Father died unexpected when I was young. There were many things that we left unsaid and undone. This movie reminds us to make use of the time we have with those we love.
28:22 This was the final theatrical film of actor Burt Lancaster, whose career began back in 1946 in THE KILLERS, which was a very popular film noir co-starring Ava Gardner. He was in quite a number of successful films from that point on, getting nominated 4 times for the Best Actor Oscar and winning once, in 1961, for the film ELMER GANTRY (1960). I really hope you look deeper into his resume as time continues. He made a lot of really entertaining movies.
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham was a real baseball player who appeared in 1 game for the New York Giants and never got a chance to bat. But it was in 1905 not 1922. And he passed away in 1965 not 1972. Also, the real Shoeless Joe Jackson was a left handed hitter. Ray Liotta was right handed and looked awkward when he'd swing the bat as a left handed hitter.
TenSixty6 here. I grew up with this movie, and am deeply steeped in baseball culture. You reacted exactly as your supposed to this film. I grew up with it. I'm so glad you loved it, Mari!
Ray's baseball field takes up about 1.5 acres. (.006 sq km). That's a lot of corn that he won't be able to sell, and on which he already spent the time and money to plant. Add to that the money he spent on turning over his field, grass seed, irrigation, fertilizer, running electricity out to the field, putting in the telephone poles and 4 enormous light fixtures. Mark is sort of painted as a villain here, but he's really trying to help. The bank is about to foreclose on Ray's mortgage, which means they will be evicted. Mark and his legal partners are offering to buy deed to the farm from the bank. Ray and Annie won't be on the deed anymore, but at least they can still live there and earn a living farming the land. By the way, ironically, the actor who played Mark- Timothy Busfield- was a baseball player in his younger days. He played at the college level but had to quit due to an injury. He later starred in a film called Little Big League (1994) where he played a professional baseball player, alongside other REAL professional baseball payers.
@@humor1012 Ah her yeah I’ve seen her reactions before. I try to watch reactors that aren’t American because I just like the difference in cultures, and thus their reactions.
I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid. It was my parent's favorite. I still cry at that ending scene. Every. Single. Time. Kevin Costner's voice crack at the line "do you want to have a catch?" just destroys me.
@@richardpetty9159 If most of them lived well past their baseball days, and well past 1939 (one player said he died in 1970), they probably would have seen it at some point in their lives. So a reference to it isn't really out of place.
@@richardpetty9159 No not a flaw. There's also plenty of evidence in the dialog that even though the players are "young" they are still aware of their whole lives and deaths, they just take on a younger form of themselves on the field. One player recounts the year he died, young Archie always seemed to know who he really is, Shoeless Joe talked about disliking Ty Cobb when "he was alive," and John ultimately seemed to be aware who Ray was the whole time.
I have a lot of nostalgia for this movie. I watched it as a kid with my family. We had it on VHS and rewatched it often. To me, it has always been about connecting with the past, particularly with the memory of your parents, through cherishing the things your parents cherished, the things that you and they cherished together. To this day, I feel close to my parents when watching a movie or TV show that they loved, and that we watched together when I was a kid, including this movie. The music they loved, the books they loved, the places they loved, the little rituals of life they loved, whatever it is, when you experience that thing again, you feel close to your parents; they live on in your shared loves and happy moments.
Great reaction to an awesome movie, Mary. Btw, one of the most moving aspects of this movie is that the elderly actor who played 'Moonlight Archie Graham' was Hollywood legend, Burt Lancaster. This movie was his final role before he died. So, towards the end when Ray Liotta's character (Shoeless Joe Jackson) told him, "Hey, Rookie....you were good.", it was basically an on-camera Hollywood farewell, paying homage and respect to an acting legend in his final role.
Field of Dreams is in my top 5 favorite sports movies… I love it because it’s not about baseball as a sport but baseball as redemption… Great reaction and review
12:07 yeah thats super common for kids and its why the catcher (which is what you were playing) wears a metal mask. You learn very early on playing in little kids baseball leagues that you're not supposed to fling the bat once you hit the ball, you're supposed to drop it. Like I said it's very common for people to fling the bat backwards because they've twisted their body during the swing so they physically have to correct their stance before running and if they let go of the bat while righting their stance they'll fling it, but it's emphasized so much that first year of baseball that it doesn't happen very often after that first year. Even today I think I would instinctively drop the bat.
I lost my father eight years ago, that combination of unresolved issues and that desire to have one last perfect moment with him is something I thing many people can understand. This is a very wholesome movie and I am glad such a wholesome person enjoyed it so much.
Hi Mary, thanks for reacting to this touching movie. "Field of Dreams" is an adaptation of Canadian novelist William P. Kinsella's fine book, Shoeless Joe. Obviously, the novel is fiction, but the baseball players and details of their lives mentioned in the movie are mostly accurate to history.
In American culture for many men, not all, baseball and golf are the two sports that bind father and son. Baseball when young and golf when your dad is about to leave. Yoy play golf with the old man and he tells you things he never shared before. He's saying goodbye to you in his own way. These two sports create the most vivid memory of who your father was. In 2019 my dad passed away at age 90. He never once told me outwardly that he loved me. Because we played together, he never had to.
Im from Iowa, btw. You can visit this farm today. Ive been there twice. I once read a research article that the two activities most conducive to building family relationships are fishing and baseball.
@jonalberts980 no. The time I was there it was still owned by the two farmers. My daughter went a couple years ago and I do t believe the house was open.
14:31....i´m melting, i'm melting.....😂😂😂.....Mary ficou confusa com a fala do filme, uma vez que tinha acabado de dizer a mesma coisa....😂😂😂....a fala do filme é uma referencia a uma cena de O Mágico de Oz....
Being from Iowa, this movie was such a comfort to me when I lived in a different state and was homesick for Iowa. A lot of people think of Iowa as a 'fly over' state but if you're from here, you really understand what the line from the movie "Is this heaven? No, its Iowa." means.
2:58 you can... For a night. I visited the movie site last year. You can tour the house, play baseball, walk into the corn and giggle like James Earl Jones (It's involuntary, you can't help it). And yes, if you want to you can rent the house and sleep in it overnight. It's a goofy touristy place... And It's glorious and magical.
2:05 "It's actually cool to see if you're sitting that high." My favorite seat is always close to the field and home plate. As close as I can get without going bankrupt! I bring my digital camera and take lots of good photos. Also, the sounds of the game are loud and clear, especially when the batter hits a home run. The sound of the bat crushing the ball is epic!
I call this a bedtime movie. The romance of the glory days of baseball. James Horner’s soothing score. The family sentiment and the warm nostalgic feelings. It’s cozy and heartwarming. It’s not a holiday movie but I often find myself watching it around Christmas.
Awesome! I read that the cars were directed to intermittently flip the headlights off and back on to help sell the illusion they were all in motion.... is that correct?
Were the cars actually heading to “the” field. I had always thought it was cars on their way to a real ball game at night but with all but the field itself in temporary blackout.
I live in the so called "Boring" Iowa City, semi-regularly go up by Dyersville, where this movie is set, and the field still exists up there, more or less. It's a solid hour and a half drive or so, not the few miles implied by the line of cars at the end of this movie. And yes, the "Is this heaven, No It's Iowa" is still referenced around here a good 30 years after this movie was made.
@@tempsitch5632 Yes, My understanding (I was too young at the time of filming to be aware), is the local chamber of commerce was involved to have as many locals as possible hope in their cars and drive toward the filming site from town at a specified time to create the effect.
Mary that field is still there and Major League Baseball play a actual game in a slightly bigger field they built right next to it. You can visit the original field as well.
I saw this movie in theaters as a teenager. At the end the full theater was sobbing. I’ve seen this movie probably 20 times since, and I’m not even a baseball fan. But it makes me cry every single time. And we’re talking big fat tears.❤️😢
Mary resting her cheek against the mic stand brings peace to my soul. Also didn’t realize you reacted to “The Young Pope”. One of my favorite seasons of television ever! Can’t wait to revisit with you!
A beautiful reaction, Mary. Thank you. As I'm sure other commenters have already told you, men who see this movie (especially men who have lost their fathers) sob like babies when they (we) get to the end of the film. All of the "dreams" in this film -- Joe's, Terry's, Ray's -- are wishes to undo the past, to rewrite history, to live the life we rejected or foolishly squandered or never got the chance to taste. It is a deep longing that makes me think of Kierkegaard's famous observation that "[l]ife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
One of my favorite movies ever made, and I say that as someone who doesn’t much care for baseball. Seeing James Earl Jones after hearing Mufasa/Darth Vader for years was a trip, I recognized his voice immediately. Speaking of voices, “The Voice as Himself” annoyed the hell out of me as a kid.
Terence Mann with the great voice was played by James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader. Old Dr Graham was played by the legendary actor, Burt Lancaster. Young Dr Graham was played by the same actor who played Brett as in, "Check out the big brain on Brett" before he was shot by Samuel L Jackson. You are correct, Shoeless Joe Jackson was played by the great Ray Liotta who went on to play Henry in Goodfellas. RIP
Mary, if you're up for another baseball movie- please try Eight Men Out (1988). It's about "Shoeless" Joe's team that Ray was talking about- the 1919 Chicago White Sox. They accepted bribe money from gamblers to lose the World Series on purpose because they were being underpaid by the team's owner. The World Series is the championship series of games for Major League Baseball. The two best teams play a series of games. Back then it was best of 9. First team to win 5 games are the champions. Ray explains that, although Shoeless Joe accepted the money, he played very well and didn't do anything to cause them to lose. He committed no errors, and his batting average was .375. (anything over .300 is really good).
Gaby Hoffman, who plays the daughter, is in a Netflix mini series with Benedict Cumberbatch called Eric. She plays the wife of the alcoholic father and mother of the son who disappears. It is gritty, but also fanciful (like Harvey [1950] with James Stewart).
Great reaction to an all time classic! As someone who lost his dad to cancer a couple of years ago, this movie hits even harder now, but it hit me hard as the callous teen that I was when it came out. After first seeing this I started trying to understand my dad better so I could relate to him better, which was quite the change from my previous attitude towards all things. I like to think that this movie helped me establish a better relationship with my dad from my late teens/early twenties on so I wouldn't have a lifetime of regrets like Ray. Along those lines, Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsella, wrote a book called "If You Build It..." which deals with the movie, and the reactions and conversations he has had with people whose lives were touched and shaped by this movie like mine were. He also talks about the ways the movie changed his own relationship with his father. Good stuff and a great read. Also: may require tissues. James Earl Jones is fantastic here, but when is he not? He delivers some poignant lines that cut to the depths of how we feel, but that is true of many of the characters, from Shoeless Joe to Doc Graham. And another thing is the unspoken message revealed in the character of Mark, Annie's brother. He, and the rest of Annie's family, seem to have given up on dreaming and dreams, and that is why they cannot see the baseball players early on in the movie. Like so many of us, the harsher parts of life seem to have made it impossible for Mark to dream. But something can come along, like accidentally causing his much loved niece to plummet off the top of the bleachers and suddenly fiercely hoping that she's okay, that can shock us out of the blinded malaise that we can fall into, only seeing what we have to do to get the next food pellet on the other side of the maze like a rat in a lab. And, to give Mark credit, once he has hopes and can see the players there's no doubt, no argument, no trying to keep the blinders on. Once he sees the dream for himself, he is 100% on Team Ray. "Don't sell this farm, Ray. Don't sell this farm." I love as well how when Terry goes into the field, right before he vanishes you hear his laughter rise to a higher timbre, as if in his transition into whatever is out there he is made young again, returning once again to be the kid who dreamed of playing at Ebbets Field. There are moments in life that can make us feel like that again: young, alive, and willing to dream. This unexpected trip helped Terry recapture that feeling he'd lost, like Mark, in his life of just focusing on the next food pellet in the working maze. I've seen this movie at least a hundred times since it first came out, and I cried the first time and I still cry now. Personal story: My maternal grandfather was born in 1897, and when he graduated from high school in 1916 (a year late because he missed an entire year of high school while fighting and recovering from tuberculosis, which was usually fatal then) he did more exploring of the possibilities and his dreams than immediately buckling down to work. One of the things he did was what young Archie talked about in the car: playing on a town team where they'd find you a job that'd let you practice and play with the local baseball team. He also later joined a small traveling circus and became a juggler. My mom still has his juggling pins from over a hundred years ago at her house. When we'd go visit them as kids I remember sitting on the steps of his semi-finished basement and watching him tinker with whatever project he was working on (he ended up being a machinist though he was equally skilled at woodwork) while we'd listen to Chicago baseball games on his transistor radio. Even in his older years he'd do things that I couldn't. Their house was at the base of a steep road up to the top of a ridge, and he'd walk up the steep hill to the top of the ridge and for miles on the ridgetop trails daily with their dog. I remember being sixteen or seventeen and in pretty good shape and walking with him one day (he was 71 when I, his first grandchild, was born, so he was 87 or 88 at this time) when, during our conversation, he stopped, stooped down, picked up three decent sized pieces of gravel off of the roadside, and then continued our walk, him juggling the three rocks flawlessly while looking at me the entire time, me huffing and puffing up the steep road and him talking just as smoothly as if he was sitting in his rocking chair at the house. When he got tired of juggling he caught the three rocks and then casually dropped them back by the roadside. People of that era were wildly different from my generation and later generations too. That was reflected in this movie, and in the dreams that people held on to. Dream more and do more.
It doesn't really matter if you like sports or not, but there are many excellent sports films. Kevin Costner has been in 3 baseball films and one about golf. Here are several very good sports films; 1. Sea Biscuit ... Horse racing 2. Bull Durham ... Baseball 3. Remember the Titans ... Football 4. Tin Cup ... Golf 5. Cinderella Man ... Boxing 6. League of Their Own ... Women's Baseball 7. Eight Men Out ... Baseball 8. The Natural ... Baseball 9. Slapshot... Hockey 10. The Rookie ... Baseball 11. Rudy ... Football 12. Hoosiers... Basketball 13. Million Dollar Baby ... Boxing 14. Trouble with the Curve ... Baseball 15. Sandlot... Baseball 16. Miracle ... Hockey 17. 42 ... Baseball 18. Secretariat ... Horse racing 19. Raging Bull ... Boxing 20. Major League ... Baseball 21. Vision Quest ... Wrestling 22. Win, Win ... Wrestling 23. Chariots of Fire ... Track 24. For the Love of the Game ... Baseball Numbers 1,3,5,6,7,10,11,12,16,17,18,19, & 23 Based on a true story. #7 is based on the 8 baseball players suspended for life. The same players from this movie first appeared on the field.
I’m always interested to see how reactors from across the pond respond to all the baseball in this movie. It was also interesting how Mary immediately understood the Eva Braun reference while most American reactors never bat an eye.
That ballfield is a little over an hour drive from where I live. I've only visited it once, though. Dyersville, Iowa is also where the only rural basilica is located.
It was so much fun to watch your reaction to this wonderful movie. Good job, too, on guessing the young hitch hiker was the younger version of the doctor!
I was 12 when this film came out and I loved it because I played baseball. Now that I'm a Dad myself this movie hits me different. I cry so hard multiple times everytime I watch it.
I look forward to playing catch with my father. That girl is my mother in 1932 at her field of dreams.. I rode the tractor with my mom's cousin in 1965.
They actually did build a baseball field in a cornfield in Iowa when they filmed this movie. It's still there. The land came from two farms that are next to each other, and the field is still split between two properties. When filming was over, the property owners figured out they'd make more money with a tourist attraction than they would growing corn. Baseball fans pay admission to see it, and they sell souvenirs. I have a small vial of dirt from the Field of Dreams. Doc Graham was Burt Lancaster's last feature film role, though he did TV work after Field of Dreams. He died five years later at the age of 80. Some of his other movies include From Here to Eternity (1953), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Elmer Gantry (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), Airport (1970), and Atlantic City (1980). Kevin Costner played baseball in college, and has been in three baseball movies: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and For the Love of the Game. The ballplayers named in the movie were real people, most of whom played on the 1919 Chicago White Sox team that threw the World Series. Even Archie "Moonlight" Graham was a real person who played in a single game in Major League Baseball without coming to bat (although in real life it happened in 1905, not 1922). Field of Dreams is an example of magical realism: a story with magical elements in an otherwise realistic story. The bit at the end where all the cars show up is part of it. Karin and Terence predicted it. The same magic that caused Ray and Terence to hear the voices and have visions, that caused the Black Sox to show up from nowhere, that caused Ray's father to come back, also caused all those people to drive to the farm. Maybe the voice whispered to them, too. Terrence Mann was based on the author J.D. Salinger, who wrote Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and other books. Like Mann, Salinger had retired from public life and refused to talk to people about his works. Salinger threatened to sue over the character, so they changed the name and enough details to make Mann different enough to make a successful lawsuit unlikely.[ For the final shot with all the cars driving toward the field, they got people in the nearby town to turn off their lights and drive their cars up the road with their headlights on. If the movie were remade today, they'd probably do it with CGI.
Field of Dreams was all about second chances. Everyone got their chance to do something again that they regretted once in their life, including Ray playing catch with his father. Shoeless Joe Jackson got to play again. Terrance Mann got to find peace and write again (yes he was probably already dead the whole time - lol). Moonlight Graham got to bat and wink at a major league pitcher. My favorite all time movie. I still cry at the end every time!
Mary if you think Karin (the little girl) played by l Gabby Hofmann is cute in this you should see her, and the actress that plays Annie, her mother, played by Amy Madigan together with John Candy in "Uncle Buck", its a really good movie!
In my opinion, this was your best reaction yet. The field is in Dyersville, Iowa, and I played ball there in September of 1994. As a huge baseball fan, it was a dream come true. Thank you!
James Earl Jones is a great actor and definitely has a great voice. In the 80's he was the voice of CNN saying, "This is CNN. The most trusted name in News." baseball has stood the test of times in America since 1823. Gaby Hoffmann was the actress who played Karin and it was her first movie role, she was 7 years old
Great reaction, Mary! I am from Iowa. When this film was being made I was student at a nearby college (UNI). I was somewhere in the long line of cars at the end of the movie. At the time, I didn't realize I'd be looking back at this move with such a fond memory for the next 30+ years! Thanks for doing this.. it's one of my favorites!
You saw the wife Annie and daughter before, they were both in 'Uncle Buck'. Annie/Amy Madigan was Uncle Buck's girlfriend and the little girl was Uncle Buck's 6 year old niece. Both of these films came out in the same year.
This is like a perfect movie - still hard to believe it didn't win a single Oscar. "As a small child he had a bat named Rosebud", is a reference to the classic film CITIZEN KANE (1941) - it consistently tops the critics' lists of Best Films Ever, and with 9 Oscar nominations, every student of the film needs to watch and react. Casting Burt Lancaster as Archie Graham was a touch of genius. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham was a real person, and the good Doctor finally got his due in this film.
“Dad…..you wanna have a catch?” I admit it, every time…like a baby.
Ditto bud, ever since my dad passed it hurts deep.
Back in 1989, every single screening of this film in theaters saw huge numbers of grown men above 20 crying like 4 year olds when that line was heard. Pretty much any guy who had ever played catch with his dad or had bonded through baseball was sniffling and wiping away tears when he left the theater.
Likewise. I still have vivid memories of the last time I had a catch with my father; 50 years ago. This movie gets me. Every time.
@@RetroClassic66I saw it in the theater with some friends when it came out. One of my friends had lost her mother unexpectedly several months earlier. She was a mess at the end of the film. As much as it's about the connection between fathers and sons, it transcends to all people who have lost someone whom they'd like one more moment of a shared experience with them. Timeless...
Yes, that part of the movie is rough....
my Dad passed away when I was only 4 ❤
and I'd give anything for a game of catch with him.
My Dad was a local baseball star, and I have his scrap book with all of the newspaper clippings.
I do love this movie. I miss my Dad, but the ending really wrecks me 💔
Mary - "He's got a great voice" without realizing that's the voice of Darth Vader.
The same but not the same, i laughed when she said it could be a crime thriller in her introduction.
As soon as she said that I headed to the comment section. Yours is the first one and that makes me happy. 😅
And Mufasa.
Let's be specific, he is James Earl Jones and the voice of Darth Vader.
@@geraldtodd6633 and Mufasa!!!!!!!!!!!
Doc Graham was a real person, the old men talking about Doc knew him, and the stories about buying blue hats for his wife were true. I love this movie, I lost my dad 18 years ago, I would give anything to play catch with him one more time.
And it was perfect to have the great Burt Lancaster to play the role. He was really good in this movie and I could feel everything he talked about.
I lost my Dad in 2001. It seems so far away now that I have to look at photos and play his voice from his voice mail that I recorded right after he passed (not many videos back in the day). I feel like I'm forgetting his face and voice sometimes.
@@SherriLyle80s The good news is that his face and voice aren't what made him who he was, so you'll keep remembering the man you loved. 🙂
Me too
the second one was definitely an actor , ive seen him before
RIP Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster. Both gave marvelous performances here. One of my favorite movies ever.
!ND now James Earl Jones +!!
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The red haired actor playing Mark is Tim Busfield, show grew up in Okemos Michigan, USA, just a few miles from Lansing , Michigan where I grew up. I cry at the end of this movie everytime. And Fathers Day is June 15 next Sunday. The end always reminds me of how Dad used to play catch with us boys, and then decades later I played catch with my boy and daughter. Then just weeks before dad died at age 82, my 7 year old son was playing catch with him as he sat on a park bench. He couldn't get up and leap for my son's throws and I played catcher. Finally my son threw one above dad's head, he reach up and caught it barehanded. My son was astonished. I said to my son outloud, "That's the man who tuaght me how to throw a baseball, better not mess with him." and my son laughed "yeh that's right." . Dad was gone 3 weeks later. At age 12, my son played little league baseball, and I witnessed him catch a ball in left field, one handed with his glove, leaping in the air, just like his grandfather used to do. I told my son I know you caught that very good, but you did just like grandpa used to, you're just as good as he was." My son said "Maybe he was helping me out on that one." Maybe he was.
Mary, not surprised that you wouldn't know, but Moonlight Graham is played by the legendary Burt Lancaster. This was his last ever film role.
He had a remarkable life, performing in the circus in the 1930s before serving in WWII. He then got into films in the 1946, and so began a career that spanned more than 4 decades, and included an Oscar for best actor.
Favorite Lancaster movies: The Birdman of Alcatraz, Elmer Gantry.
yes he even made atlantic city watchable lol
Trapeze!
The little girls also starred in the movie “Uncle Buck” alongside with John Candy, Macaulay Culkin and Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams)! Extremely funny, you’ll like it…
She's also the little girl in 'Sleepless in Seattle'
Isn't the wife played by Uncle Bucks girlfriend ?
@@adrianmcgrath1984 Yes, that’s why I put the movie Field of Dreams in parentheses following Amy Madigan name…
Now and Then also
Oh I'm so glad you are watching this classic!!!
One of the very few movies men will leave the theater with tears in their eyes and face. Even to this day, it still affects me. Many sons would love to have that one final perfect moment with their dads before letting them go. Sometimes remembered conversations we had with our dads will hit us like a brick. The last thing my Dad ever said to me was "It's up to you to take care of Mom now." My father's been dead for 14 years. But that last thing he said to me still hits me hard today. Like...right now. 8-( I didn't have to take care of my Mom for very long. She passed 3 months later.
Thank you, Mary, for sharing this experience with us. This is one movie that never gets old and holds up even after all these years.
"One of the very few movies men will leave the theater with tears in their eyes and face" One of, not one of the few. Lots of men have, you know... emotions. Emotions they aren't afraid of, or afraid to show.
Daughters also have this link to their Dad's. We watched the Saturday game of the week and then went out to play catch
Kevin Costner said that this movie isn't a sports movie, it's a movie about healing of relationships told through a commen connection that parents and their children often have. I miss having a catch with my pop who passed just after this movie came out.
The first year after shooting the film, farm owner Al Ameskamp grew corn on his property, but then restored his portion of the field the next year and added a souvenir shop. Farmer Don Lansing maintained his property as a tourist destination. He did not charge for admission or parking, deriving revenue solely from his own souvenir shop. By the film's 20th anniversary, approximately 65,000 people visited each year. In July 2010, the farm containing the "Field" was listed for sale. It was sold on October 31, 2011, to 'Go The Distance Baseball', LLC for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around $5.4m. In 2021, major league baseball veteran Frank Thomas became the majority owner.
I cry like a baby every time at the end...I miss my Dad
16:39 "I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties." Every time I hear this, I want Annie to reply "No, but your husband is!"
After all the times I've seen this, I still tear up when Ray meets his father.
Mary, if you really want to understand the role baseball played in shaping American culture in the 20th century, you should check out Ken Burns' great nine-part Baseball documentary. It's a must-watch for any fan and, for the baseball novice, a good introduction to the game, and how it came to be known as "America's pastime".
Anyone interested in baseball, American history, and wholesome goodness should read 'Last Days of Summer' by Steve Kluger. My heart.
I still have Ken Burns’ documentary on VHS but no device to play it on.
I saw this in a small town Iowa theater. None of the farmers laughed at the line about hearing voices in the field.
"Is this Heaven? No, it's Iowa." That line was so popular that the State of Iowa changed their official state motto to it.
That's not their state motto.... though I agree it should be.
No we didn’t. But we should have. Our state motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.”
They did, however use the line in several PR campaigns.
I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released. Imagine Mary, a theater that was about 90% full, with probably 55-60% men inside. Nearly every guy in that theater was trying so hard to keep it together. Then Ray says, "Hey dad, you want to have a catch?" There's an explosion; emotionally, we are gone. From those who have lost their father, or those who have lost a child, even those who just fondly remember moments from their childhood, this movie brought feelings so special and pure. Baseball is often the link between fathers and sons in the United States.
A couple of tidbits for you, Mary; The older gentlemen in the bar that were telling Terry about Doc Graham were not actors. In fact, they knew the real Doc Graham and were telling real stories about him. Much of the backstory about Moonlight Graham was factual. He only played the one game and never got the chance to hit. Instead of playing in 1922, it was 1902.
Ray Liotta, who played shoeless Joe Jackson, batted righthanded. The real life Joe Jackson was lefthanded. The filmmakers were concerned that baseball fans watching the film would be upset by the change. Normally, baseball fans would be very critical of such an oversight, but the nature of the film and the magic that flowed made everyone suspend their disbelief and enjoy the magic.
I believe the movie that the little girl is watching is a Jimmy Stewart movie called Harvey which is about a free-spirited alcoholic who has a 6-foot rabbit as an imaginary friend.
Not so imaginary.
'Harvey' is also referenced in 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Jimmy Stewart said his role in 'Harvey' was his favourite.
Worth a reaction by Mary.🙂
Mary might enjoy reacting to Harvey! She likes Jimmy Stewart
This is why Ray turns off the TV. An imaginary rabbit is a bit too close to what he's going through.
What a pleasant surprise. One of the reasons I love reactions channels like yours is you never know when you'll get to share a classic like this. The perfect reaction to a beautiful movie .....Thanks Mary
Like a box of chocolate.
A wonderful choice Mari. This is arguably one of the best sports movies of all time. Great sports movies are not really about the game itself, but about the lessons we can learn from the sport. So glad you enjoyed this one Marijchu.
Most people's big moment is the playing catch at the end, but mine is when Doc walks off the field to help the little girl. It just gets me on so many levels.
I never make it through this movie without tears at the end. My Father died unexpected when I was young. There were many things that we left unsaid and undone. This movie reminds us to make use of the time we have with those we love.
One of the greatest endings in movie history. And one of the biggest tearjerkers of all time. The movie that makes grown men cry.
When Archie pauses and you know he is giving up a childhood dream for adulthood… I lose it every time. 😢
I do not get through this movie without crying several times, truly is one of the best feel good movies ever made.
Such a profound movie. I've seen it several times and the scene where Shoeless Joe first shows up still gives me chills.
28:22 This was the final theatrical film of actor Burt Lancaster, whose career began back in 1946 in THE KILLERS, which was a very popular film noir co-starring Ava Gardner. He was in quite a number of successful films from that point on, getting nominated 4 times for the Best Actor Oscar and winning once, in 1961, for the film ELMER GANTRY (1960). I really hope you look deeper into his resume as time continues. He made a lot of really entertaining movies.
The story goes that the "voice" actually was actor Ed Harris. He was already then married to Amy Madigan, Kevin Costner's wife in the film.
@@JuandeFucaU Kyle MacLachlan?
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham was a real baseball player who appeared in 1 game for the New York Giants and never got a chance to bat. But it was in 1905 not 1922. And he passed away in 1965 not 1972.
Also, the real Shoeless Joe Jackson was a left handed hitter. Ray Liotta was right handed and looked awkward when he'd swing the bat as a left handed hitter.
TenSixty6 here. I grew up with this movie, and am deeply steeped in baseball culture. You reacted exactly as your supposed to this film. I grew up with it. I'm so glad you loved it, Mari!
I'm a grumpy middle aged man, yet I cant help but shed a few tears every damn time I see the end of this movie.
Ray's baseball field takes up about 1.5 acres. (.006 sq km). That's a lot of corn that he won't be able to sell, and on which he already spent the time and money to plant. Add to that the money he spent on turning over his field, grass seed, irrigation, fertilizer, running electricity out to the field, putting in the telephone poles and 4 enormous light fixtures.
Mark is sort of painted as a villain here, but he's really trying to help. The bank is about to foreclose on Ray's mortgage, which means they will be evicted. Mark and his legal partners are offering to buy deed to the farm from the bank. Ray and Annie won't be on the deed anymore, but at least they can still live there and earn a living farming the land.
By the way, ironically, the actor who played Mark- Timothy Busfield- was a baseball player in his younger days. He played at the college level but had to quit due to an injury. He later starred in a film called Little Big League (1994) where he played a professional baseball player, alongside other REAL professional baseball payers.
Where I'm from 19.8 km² is the area of a large town; or a small city.
@@uncommon_niagara1581 You're right, wayyyy off. I converted wrong. I fixed it.
Most of the farms I know have that much land lying unused.
This is a hard movie to explain but it is a very good story. Underused actress Amy Madigan aka Kevin's wife in this movie.
Thank you, Mary, for showing this movie and reacting to it. The actor who played Dr. Graham is Burt Lancaster. A big star from the 50s and 60s.
41:10. Those are real cars driven by local volunteers.
Mary, I only have two favorite reaction channels and you are one of them. We can see how honest your reactions are, take care, and wish you the best.
Is the other one Popcorn In Bed?
@@hulkslayer626 Nope
@@humor1012 Movie Munchies?
@@TheMan21892 ok is Whimsory and if I have to pick a third that would be Rob Squad
@@humor1012 Ah her yeah I’ve seen her reactions before. I try to watch reactors that aren’t American because I just like the difference in cultures, and thus their reactions.
I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid. It was my parent's favorite. I still cry at that ending scene. Every. Single. Time.
Kevin Costner's voice crack at the line "do you want to have a catch?" just destroys me.
Im melting is a line from Wizard of Oz.
But is the line a flaw in the script? These guy played ball before the 1939 release of The Wizard of Oz.
@@richardpetty9159 If most of them lived well past their baseball days, and well past 1939 (one player said he died in 1970), they probably would have seen it at some point in their lives. So a reference to it isn't really out of place.
@@richardpetty9159 No not a flaw. There's also plenty of evidence in the dialog that even though the players are "young" they are still aware of their whole lives and deaths, they just take on a younger form of themselves on the field. One player recounts the year he died, young Archie always seemed to know who he really is, Shoeless Joe talked about disliking Ty Cobb when "he was alive," and John ultimately seemed to be aware who Ray was the whole time.
I have a lot of nostalgia for this movie. I watched it as a kid with my family. We had it on VHS and rewatched it often. To me, it has always been about connecting with the past, particularly with the memory of your parents, through cherishing the things your parents cherished, the things that you and they cherished together. To this day, I feel close to my parents when watching a movie or TV show that they loved, and that we watched together when I was a kid, including this movie. The music they loved, the books they loved, the places they loved, the little rituals of life they loved, whatever it is, when you experience that thing again, you feel close to your parents; they live on in your shared loves and happy moments.
Great reaction to an awesome movie, Mary. Btw, one of the most moving aspects of this movie is that the elderly actor who played 'Moonlight Archie Graham' was Hollywood legend, Burt Lancaster. This movie was his final role before he died. So, towards the end when Ray Liotta's character (Shoeless Joe Jackson) told him, "Hey, Rookie....you were good.", it was basically an on-camera Hollywood farewell, paying homage and respect to an acting legend in his final role.
Field of Dreams is in my top 5 favorite sports movies… I love it because it’s not about baseball as a sport but baseball as redemption… Great reaction and review
*GREAT reaction, Mary! Thank you for sharing it with us. Cheers!* ☺🙂
12:07 yeah thats super common for kids and its why the catcher (which is what you were playing) wears a metal mask. You learn very early on playing in little kids baseball leagues that you're not supposed to fling the bat once you hit the ball, you're supposed to drop it. Like I said it's very common for people to fling the bat backwards because they've twisted their body during the swing so they physically have to correct their stance before running and if they let go of the bat while righting their stance they'll fling it, but it's emphasized so much that first year of baseball that it doesn't happen very often after that first year. Even today I think I would instinctively drop the bat.
When I played little league baseball around 1970, if you threw the bat then the ump would call you out.
@@richardpetty9159 yeah that sounds vaguely familiar
I lost my father eight years ago, that combination of unresolved issues and that desire to have one last perfect moment with him is something I thing many people can understand. This is a very wholesome movie and I am glad such a wholesome person enjoyed it so much.
“People will Come Ray …. “ Delivered by the great James Earl Jones is one of my favorite speeches in a movie.
Hi Mary, thanks for reacting to this touching movie. "Field of Dreams" is an adaptation of Canadian novelist William P. Kinsella's fine book, Shoeless Joe. Obviously, the novel is fiction, but the baseball players and details of their lives mentioned in the movie are mostly accurate to history.
Moonlight Graham was a real person.
All the people that he talks to about him in the town? They're all people who actually knew him IRL.
In American culture for many men, not all, baseball and golf are the two sports that bind father and son. Baseball when young and golf when your dad is about to leave. Yoy play golf with the old man and he tells you things he never shared before. He's saying goodbye to you in his own way. These two sports create the most vivid memory of who your father was. In 2019 my dad passed away at age 90. He never once told me outwardly that he loved me. Because we played together, he never had to.
Im from Iowa, btw. You can visit this farm today. Ive been there twice. I once read a research article that the two activities most conducive to building family relationships are fishing and baseball.
Did you go in the house? I was in the house, but I don't know if you can do that anymore.
@jonalberts980 no. The time I was there it was still owned by the two farmers. My daughter went a couple years ago and I do t believe the house was open.
14:31....i´m melting, i'm melting.....😂😂😂.....Mary ficou confusa com a fala do filme, uma vez que tinha acabado de dizer a mesma coisa....😂😂😂....a fala do filme é uma referencia a uma cena de O Mágico de Oz....
Being from Iowa, this movie was such a comfort to me when I lived in a different state and was homesick for Iowa. A lot of people think of Iowa as a 'fly over' state but if you're from here, you really understand what the line from the movie "Is this heaven? No, its Iowa." means.
I've been to Iowa. It's Minnesota but about 8° warmer. And more Trumpy.
micro, I'll thumb you up.
2:58 you can... For a night. I visited the movie site last year. You can tour the house, play baseball, walk into the corn and giggle like James Earl Jones (It's involuntary, you can't help it). And yes, if you want to you can rent the house and sleep in it overnight. It's a goofy touristy place... And It's glorious and magical.
2:05 "It's actually cool to see if you're sitting that high." My favorite seat is always close to the field and home plate. As close as I can get without going bankrupt! I bring my digital camera and take lots of good photos. Also, the sounds of the game are loud and clear, especially when the batter hits a home run. The sound of the bat crushing the ball is epic!
I call this a bedtime movie.
The romance of the glory days of baseball.
James Horner’s soothing score. The family sentiment and the warm nostalgic feelings.
It’s cozy and heartwarming.
It’s not a holiday movie but I often find myself watching it around Christmas.
James Horner is an amazing composer.
I actually was in that line of cars at the end.
Awesome! I read that the cars were directed to intermittently flip the headlights off and back on to help sell the illusion they were all in motion.... is that correct?
Were the cars actually heading to “the” field. I had always thought it was cars on their way to a real ball game at night but with all but the field itself in temporary blackout.
@@michaeljacyna1973 Cars with one set of lights did that. My Pontiac had two sets. I was instructed to leave mine alone.
@@davemcbroom695 cool!
That's a real place today. 20 years ago I went there and played catch and pitched to the kids. I handed over my money and it was a great memory.
The field and the house still exist in Iowa - It was a great experience visiting it.
Heart warming, right?
This movie still gets to me after all these years.
Thank Mary.
I live in the so called "Boring" Iowa City, semi-regularly go up by Dyersville, where this movie is set, and the field still exists up there, more or less. It's a solid hour and a half drive or so, not the few miles implied by the line of cars at the end of this movie. And yes, the "Is this heaven, No It's Iowa" is still referenced around here a good 30 years after this movie was made.
My brother flew to Iowa to see an actual mlb game there. He said it was also an emotional moment. I saw it on TV and felt it. It's a magical place.
Is that actual Dyersville in the back of the final shot ?
@@tempsitch5632It is.
@@tempsitch5632 Yes, My understanding (I was too young at the time of filming to be aware), is the local chamber of commerce was involved to have as many locals as possible hope in their cars and drive toward the filming site from town at a specified time to create the effect.
"It's hard to not be romantic about baseball."
Mary that field is still there and Major League Baseball play a actual game in a slightly bigger field they built right next to it. You can visit the original field as well.
I saw this movie in theaters as a teenager. At the end the full theater was sobbing. I’ve seen this movie probably 20 times since, and I’m not even a baseball fan. But it makes me cry every single time. And we’re talking big fat tears.❤️😢
Mary resting her cheek against the mic stand brings peace to my soul. Also didn’t realize you reacted to “The Young Pope”. One of my favorite seasons of television ever! Can’t wait to revisit with you!
Great Reaction Mary !! Here in America A Lot of Baseball Fans will Watch this Movie every Spring before the Start of the Baseball Season
One of my favourite movies of all time. Saw it in the theatre with my brother and parents.
I'm from Iowa, and my favorite baseball team has always been the Chicago White Sox. I can't watch this movie without tearing up every time.
A beautiful reaction, Mary. Thank you.
As I'm sure other commenters have already told you, men who see this movie (especially men who have lost their fathers) sob like babies when they (we) get to the end of the film. All of the "dreams" in this film -- Joe's, Terry's, Ray's -- are wishes to undo the past, to rewrite history, to live the life we rejected or foolishly squandered or never got the chance to taste. It is a deep longing that makes me think of Kierkegaard's famous observation that "[l]ife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
One of my favorite movies ever made, and I say that as someone who doesn’t much care for baseball. Seeing James Earl Jones after hearing Mufasa/Darth Vader for years was a trip, I recognized his voice immediately. Speaking of voices, “The Voice as Himself” annoyed the hell out of me as a kid.
Terence Mann with the great voice was played by James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader. Old Dr Graham was played by the legendary actor, Burt Lancaster. Young Dr Graham was played by the same actor who played Brett as in, "Check out the big brain on Brett" before he was shot by Samuel L Jackson. You are correct, Shoeless Joe Jackson was played by the great Ray Liotta who went on to play Henry in Goodfellas. RIP
Mary, if you're up for another baseball movie- please try Eight Men Out (1988). It's about "Shoeless" Joe's team that Ray was talking about- the 1919 Chicago White Sox. They accepted bribe money from gamblers to lose the World Series on purpose because they were being underpaid by the team's owner.
The World Series is the championship series of games for Major League Baseball. The two best teams play a series of games. Back then it was best of 9. First team to win 5 games are the champions.
Ray explains that, although Shoeless Joe accepted the money, he played very well and didn't do anything to cause them to lose. He committed no errors, and his batting average was .375. (anything over .300 is really good).
Gaby Hoffman, who plays the daughter, is in a Netflix mini series with Benedict Cumberbatch called Eric. She plays the wife of the alcoholic father and mother of the son who disappears. It is gritty, but also fanciful (like Harvey [1950] with James Stewart).
Great reaction to an all time classic!
As someone who lost his dad to cancer a couple of years ago, this movie hits even harder now, but it hit me hard as the callous teen that I was when it came out. After first seeing this I started trying to understand my dad better so I could relate to him better, which was quite the change from my previous attitude towards all things. I like to think that this movie helped me establish a better relationship with my dad from my late teens/early twenties on so I wouldn't have a lifetime of regrets like Ray.
Along those lines, Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsella, wrote a book called "If You Build It..." which deals with the movie, and the reactions and conversations he has had with people whose lives were touched and shaped by this movie like mine were. He also talks about the ways the movie changed his own relationship with his father. Good stuff and a great read. Also: may require tissues.
James Earl Jones is fantastic here, but when is he not? He delivers some poignant lines that cut to the depths of how we feel, but that is true of many of the characters, from Shoeless Joe to Doc Graham.
And another thing is the unspoken message revealed in the character of Mark, Annie's brother. He, and the rest of Annie's family, seem to have given up on dreaming and dreams, and that is why they cannot see the baseball players early on in the movie. Like so many of us, the harsher parts of life seem to have made it impossible for Mark to dream. But something can come along, like accidentally causing his much loved niece to plummet off the top of the bleachers and suddenly fiercely hoping that she's okay, that can shock us out of the blinded malaise that we can fall into, only seeing what we have to do to get the next food pellet on the other side of the maze like a rat in a lab.
And, to give Mark credit, once he has hopes and can see the players there's no doubt, no argument, no trying to keep the blinders on. Once he sees the dream for himself, he is 100% on Team Ray. "Don't sell this farm, Ray. Don't sell this farm."
I love as well how when Terry goes into the field, right before he vanishes you hear his laughter rise to a higher timbre, as if in his transition into whatever is out there he is made young again, returning once again to be the kid who dreamed of playing at Ebbets Field. There are moments in life that can make us feel like that again: young, alive, and willing to dream. This unexpected trip helped Terry recapture that feeling he'd lost, like Mark, in his life of just focusing on the next food pellet in the working maze.
I've seen this movie at least a hundred times since it first came out, and I cried the first time and I still cry now.
Personal story: My maternal grandfather was born in 1897, and when he graduated from high school in 1916 (a year late because he missed an entire year of high school while fighting and recovering from tuberculosis, which was usually fatal then) he did more exploring of the possibilities and his dreams than immediately buckling down to work. One of the things he did was what young Archie talked about in the car: playing on a town team where they'd find you a job that'd let you practice and play with the local baseball team. He also later joined a small traveling circus and became a juggler. My mom still has his juggling pins from over a hundred years ago at her house. When we'd go visit them as kids I remember sitting on the steps of his semi-finished basement and watching him tinker with whatever project he was working on (he ended up being a machinist though he was equally skilled at woodwork) while we'd listen to Chicago baseball games on his transistor radio. Even in his older years he'd do things that I couldn't. Their house was at the base of a steep road up to the top of a ridge, and he'd walk up the steep hill to the top of the ridge and for miles on the ridgetop trails daily with their dog. I remember being sixteen or seventeen and in pretty good shape and walking with him one day (he was 71 when I, his first grandchild, was born, so he was 87 or 88 at this time) when, during our conversation, he stopped, stooped down, picked up three decent sized pieces of gravel off of the roadside, and then continued our walk, him juggling the three rocks flawlessly while looking at me the entire time, me huffing and puffing up the steep road and him talking just as smoothly as if he was sitting in his rocking chair at the house. When he got tired of juggling he caught the three rocks and then casually dropped them back by the roadside. People of that era were wildly different from my generation and later generations too. That was reflected in this movie, and in the dreams that people held on to.
Dream more and do more.
Since Moonlight Graham’s fly out advanced a runner, it is considered a sacrifice fly, meaning his stats will still show zero at-bats.
But he still got to wink and swing.
Sadly his dream was to get a hit, not a sac RBI 😪
the daughter, Gabby is also in Sleepless in Seattle with Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan... and a few other star cameos...
It doesn't really matter if you like sports or not, but there are many excellent sports films. Kevin Costner has been in 3 baseball films and one about golf. Here are several very good sports films;
1. Sea Biscuit ... Horse racing
2. Bull Durham ... Baseball
3. Remember the Titans ... Football
4. Tin Cup ... Golf
5. Cinderella Man ... Boxing
6. League of Their Own ... Women's Baseball
7. Eight Men Out ... Baseball
8. The Natural ... Baseball
9. Slapshot... Hockey
10. The Rookie ... Baseball
11. Rudy ... Football
12. Hoosiers... Basketball
13. Million Dollar Baby ... Boxing
14. Trouble with the Curve ... Baseball
15. Sandlot... Baseball
16. Miracle ... Hockey
17. 42 ... Baseball
18. Secretariat ... Horse racing
19. Raging Bull ... Boxing
20. Major League ... Baseball
21. Vision Quest ... Wrestling
22. Win, Win ... Wrestling
23. Chariots of Fire ... Track
24. For the Love of the Game ... Baseball
Numbers 1,3,5,6,7,10,11,12,16,17,18,19, & 23
Based on a true story.
#7 is based on the 8 baseball players suspended for life. The same players from this movie first appeared on the field.
16:48 Mary, your snort-laugh is the best! Keep it going! 😆😆👍👍
I’m always interested to see how reactors from across the pond respond to all the baseball in this movie. It was also interesting how Mary immediately understood the Eva Braun reference while most American reactors never bat an eye.
Love seeing you reacted to this classic. Great reaction Mary! This one always pulls at my heart strings too.
I loved your reaction! I knew you would enjoy this, you were so into it right from the start, as usual really intuitive and emotional reaction.😀👍
That ballfield is a little over an hour drive from where I live. I've only visited it once, though. Dyersville, Iowa is also where the only rural basilica is located.
It was so much fun to watch your reaction to this wonderful movie. Good job, too, on guessing the young hitch hiker was the younger version of the doctor!
I was 12 when this film came out and I loved it because I played baseball.
Now that I'm a Dad myself this movie hits me different. I cry so hard multiple times everytime I watch it.
I look forward to playing catch with my father. That girl is my mother in 1932 at her field of dreams.. I rode the tractor with my mom's cousin in 1965.
They actually did build a baseball field in a cornfield in Iowa when they filmed this movie. It's still there. The land came from two farms that are next to each other, and the field is still split between two properties. When filming was over, the property owners figured out they'd make more money with a tourist attraction than they would growing corn. Baseball fans pay admission to see it, and they sell souvenirs. I have a small vial of dirt from the Field of Dreams.
Doc Graham was Burt Lancaster's last feature film role, though he did TV work after Field of Dreams. He died five years later at the age of 80. Some of his other movies include From Here to Eternity (1953), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Elmer Gantry (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), Airport (1970), and Atlantic City (1980).
Kevin Costner played baseball in college, and has been in three baseball movies: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and For the Love of the Game.
The ballplayers named in the movie were real people, most of whom played on the 1919 Chicago White Sox team that threw the World Series. Even Archie "Moonlight" Graham was a real person who played in a single game in Major League Baseball without coming to bat (although in real life it happened in 1905, not 1922).
Field of Dreams is an example of magical realism: a story with magical elements in an otherwise realistic story. The bit at the end where all the cars show up is part of it. Karin and Terence predicted it. The same magic that caused Ray and Terence to hear the voices and have visions, that caused the Black Sox to show up from nowhere, that caused Ray's father to come back, also caused all those people to drive to the farm. Maybe the voice whispered to them, too.
Terrence Mann was based on the author J.D. Salinger, who wrote Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and other books. Like Mann, Salinger had retired from public life and refused to talk to people about his works. Salinger threatened to sue over the character, so they changed the name and enough details to make Mann different enough to make a successful lawsuit unlikely.[
For the final shot with all the cars driving toward the field, they got people in the nearby town to turn off their lights and drive their cars up the road with their headlights on. If the movie were remade today, they'd probably do it with CGI.
That big green wall at Fenway Park in Boston is called “The Green Monster.”
I live very near to where the field of dreams is and I love our early summer and fall. The rest of the year... I'd trade in.
Great movie, great reaction, and great job on correctly calling so many elements of story.
Field of Dreams was all about second chances. Everyone got their chance to do something again that they regretted once in their life, including Ray playing catch with his father. Shoeless Joe Jackson got to play again. Terrance Mann got to find peace and write again (yes he was probably already dead the whole time - lol). Moonlight Graham got to bat and wink at a major league pitcher. My favorite all time movie. I still cry at the end every time!
The father of Dwier Brown (Rays Father) actually passed while he was filming this. So you can imagine the emotions he felt.
Mary if you think Karin (the little girl) played by l Gabby Hofmann is cute in this you should see her, and the actress that plays Annie, her mother, played by Amy Madigan together with John Candy in "Uncle Buck", its a really good movie!
A friend of mine and his familyived in the next town over and were in the parade of cars at the end.
One of the commenters here was one of the cars. Maybe they know your friend.
@@tempsitch5632 they were from Earlville. The field is outside Dyersville.
In my opinion, this was your best reaction yet. The field is in Dyersville, Iowa, and I played ball there in September of 1994. As a huge baseball fan, it was a dream come true. Thank you!
James Earl Jones is a great actor and definitely has a great voice. In the 80's he was the voice of CNN saying, "This is CNN. The most trusted name in News." baseball has stood the test of times in America since 1823. Gaby Hoffmann was the actress who played Karin and it was her first movie role, she was 7 years old
Great reaction, Mary! I am from Iowa. When this film was being made I was student at a nearby college (UNI). I was somewhere in the long line of cars at the end of the movie. At the time, I didn't realize I'd be looking back at this move with such a fond memory for the next 30+ years!
Thanks for doing this.. it's one of my favorites!
Mary! Such a great reaction to such a beautiful film!! 👏👏👏🎉
The little girl is in the movie "Uncle Buck" as well.
Baseball is certainly a fond memory in my life at around 8 to 12 years
All of us could play, from the athletes to the wimps like me, we all had fun
I LOVED your reaction to this wonderful movie! Hope you little one is fairing well Mary!
You saw the wife Annie and daughter before, they were both in 'Uncle Buck'. Annie/Amy Madigan was Uncle Buck's girlfriend and the little girl was Uncle Buck's 6 year old niece. Both of these films came out in the same year.
"Ease his pain. It was your (his father) pain."
"No, Ray, it was your pain."
This is like a perfect movie - still hard to believe it didn't win a single Oscar. "As a small child he had a bat named Rosebud", is a reference to the classic film CITIZEN KANE (1941) - it consistently tops the critics' lists of Best Films Ever, and with 9 Oscar nominations, every student of the film needs to watch and react. Casting Burt Lancaster as Archie Graham was a touch of genius. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham was a real person, and the good Doctor finally got his due in this film.