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Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams (1989) Directed by Phil Alden Robinson Screenplay by Phil Alden Robinson, based upon the book Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
The Voice
- "If you build it, he will come."
- "If you build it, they will come."
- "Ease his pain."
- "Go the distance."
Ray Kinsella
- "It's okay, honey. I... I was just talking to the cornfield."
- "I need all the karma I can get right now."
- "That's my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn!"
Shoeless Joe Jackson
- "We got tired of just practicing. We decided to get some more players so we could have real games. I hope you don't mind."
- "Ty Cobb wanted to play, but none of us could stand the son-of-a-bitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it!"
- "Hey, rookie - you were good."
Terence Mann
- "We got a learning disability here?"
- "Oh, my God, you're from the Sixties!" (He sprays a flit-gun at Ray Kinsella.) "Out! Back to the Sixties! Get back! There's no place for you here in the future! Get back while you still can!"
- "You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?"
- "I was the East Coast distributor of 'involved'. I ate it, drank it, and breathed it. Then they killed Martin, Bobby, and they elected Tricky Dick twice, and people like you must think I'm miserable because I'm not involved anymore. Well, I've got news for you. I spent all my misery years ago. I have no more pain for anything. I gave at the office."
- "Now I know what everybody's purpose here is... except mine."haha
Dr. Archibald Graham (aka "Moonlight" Graham)
- "It was like coming this close to your dreams... and then having them brush past you like strangers in a crowd."
- "Well, you know I... I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases -- stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?"
- "This is my most special place in all the world. Once a place touches you like that, the wind never blows so cold again."
- "If I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy."
- "I'd best be getting home. Alicia will think I've got a girlfriend."
Dialogue
- Annie Kinsella: If you build what, who will come?
- Ray Kinsella: He didn't say.
- Annie Kinsella: I mean, Shoeless Joe...
- Ray Kinsella: He's dead. Died in '51. He's dead.
- Annie: He's the one they suspended, right?
- Ray: Right.
- Annie: He's still dead?
- Ray: Far as I know.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: Hey, is this heaven?
- Ray Kinsella: No, it's Iowa.
- Ray Kinsella: Don't we need a catcher?
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: Not if you get it near the plate, we don't.
- Karin Kinsella: Are you a ghost?
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: What do you think?
- Karin: You look real to me.
- Shoeless Joe: Well, then, I guess I'm real.
- Ray Kinsella: The voice is back.
- Annie Kinsella: Oh, Lord... you don't have to build a football field now, do you?
- Annie Kinsella: If you had experienced even a little bit of the Sixties, you'd understand.
- Pro-censorship woman: I experienced the Sixties.
- Annie Kinsella: No, I think you had two '50's and moved right on to the '70's.
- Annie Kinsella: What if the Voice calls while you're gone?
- Ray Kinsella: Take a message.
- Ray Kinsella: You've changed.
- Terence Mann: Yes, I suppose I have. How's this? Peace, Love, Dope! Now, get the hell out of here!
- Terence Mann: Now, what the hell is that?
- Ray Kinsellla: What's is look like? It's a gun.
- Terence Mann: That's your finger.
- Ray Kinsella: No, it's a gun.
- Terence Mann: Take it out. Let me see it.
- Ray Kinsella: Get out of here! I'm not showing you my gun. (Mann reaches behind a shelf and grabs a crowbar.) Hey, what are you doing?
- Terence Mann: I'm gonna beat you with this crowbar until you go away.
- Ray Kinsella: You can't do that!
- (Mann takes a wild swing; Kinsella falls while dodging it.)
- Terence Mann: Oh, there are rules? There are no rules here!
- Ray Kinsella: You're a pacifist!
- Terence Mann: Shit.
- (After the pitcher nearly knocked Archie Graham off the plate.)
- Ballplayer: Hey Gandil, what'd you throw at the kid for?
- Gandil: He-he winked at me.
- Ballplayer: Don't wink, kid.
- (The pitcher throws another ball at Graham's head.)
- Graham: Hey ump, how about a warning?
- Umpire: Sure. Watch out you don't get killed.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: The last two have been high and tight, so where do you think the next one's gonna be?
- Archie Graham: Well, either low and away... or in my ear.
- Shoeless Joe: He's not gonna want to load the bases, so look for low and away. But watch out for in your ear.
- Ray Kinsella: What do you want?
- Terence Mann: I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.
- Ray Kinsella: I mean, what do you want? (Gestures toward concession stand.)
- Terence Mann: Oh. Hot dog and a beer.
- Ray Kinsella: By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was fourteen I started refusing. Can you believe that? An American boy refusing to play catch with his father.
- Terence Mann: Why fourteeen?
- Ray Kinsella: That's when I read "The Boat Rocker", by Terence Mann.
- Terence Mann: Oh, God.
- Ray Kinsella: Never played catch with him again.
- Terence Mann: You see? That's the kind of crap people are always trying to lay on me. It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father!
- Terence Mann: So, what was it?
- Ray Kinsella: Hmm?
- Terence Mann: The "terrible thing" you said to your father. What was it?
- Ray Kinsella: I told him I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.
- Terence Mann: Who was his hero?
- Ray Kinsella: Shoeless Joe Jackson.
- Terence: He wasn't a criminal. You knew that. (Ray nods.)
So why'd you say it?
- Ray Kinsella: I was seventeen.
- Ray Kinsella: Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... y-you came this close. It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.
- Dr. Graham: Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.
- (When Karin Kinsella is injured, Archie "Moonlight" Graham leaves the baseball field; this causes him to become his later self, Dr. Graham.)
- Dr. Graham: She'll be all right. She'll be turning handsprings before you know it. (He looks wistfully at ball field.)
- Ray Kinsella: You can't go back? You can't go back... oh, God, I'm sorry --
- Dr. Graham: It's all right. I'd best be gettin' on home. Alicia will begin to think I've got a girlfriend. (He turns to leave.)
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: Hey, rookie! You were good.
- Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
- Ray Kinsella: You lied to me.
- Terence Mann: Well, you were kidnapping me at the time, you big jerk!
- Ray: You lied to me!
- Terence: Well, you said your finger was a gun!
- Ray Kinsella: I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what's in it for me.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: What's your point?
- Ray Kinsella: Well... what's in it for me?
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- Ray Kinsella: What are you grinning at, you ghost?
- Shoeless Joe: "If you build it -" (gestures toward catcher, who is Ray's father, John Kinsella) "- he will come."
- Ray : "Ease his pain. Go the distance." It was him!
- Shoeless Joe: No, Ray. It was you.
- John Kinsella: Is this heaven?
- Ray Kinsella: It's - it's Iowa.
- John: I could have sworn it was heaven.
- Ray: Is there a heaven?
- John: Oh, yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.
- Ray: Maybe this is heaven.
- Ray: Hey, Dad... you wanna have a catch?
- John: I'd like that.
Cast
- Kevin Costner : Ray Kinsella
- Amy Madigan : Annie Kinsella
- Gaby Hoffmann : Karin Kinsella
- Ray Liotta : Shoeless Joe Jackson
- James Earl Jones : Terence Mann (This character was derived from that of J. D. Salinger as portrayed in the story Shoeless Joe.)
- Burt Lancaster : Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham
- The Voice : Himself (per end credits)
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