Counter-Currents
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, & Ray Liotta
W. P. Kinsella
Shoeless Joe
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982
The most magical movie of 1989 was the baseball film Field of Dreams, which is based on the 1982 book Shoeless Joe by William Patrick “W. P.” Kinsella (1935-2016).
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Nice review. I strongly recommend the book and movie Eight Men Out. John Sayles did an excellent job putting it on the big screen. And it doesn’t ignore the huge Jewish influence in the 1919 scandal.
I don’t see Field of Dreams as any kind of right-wing movie, although the review makes strong points for it.
I also like Eight men Out. It’s one of the few films that really has a period feel, and does capture the corruption very well. Sayles makes a great Ring Lardner.
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