"If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message which inspires Iowa farmer Kevin Costner to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced-ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Costner. But as the weeks go by, Costner receives several other disembodied-voice messages, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who'd sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer James Earl Jones, whom Costner kidnaps and takes to a ball game, thence to his farm. Another is Burt Lancaster, a beloved general practitioner who years earlier had given up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final "second-chancer" turns out to be much, much closer to Costner than either Jones or Lancaster. Often described as a baseball film, Field of Dreams is actually a celebration of the love of baseball, as encapsulated by the rousing curtain speech delivered by James Earl Jones. Adapted from W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, Field of Dreams was an enormous moneymaker, a film possessed of an irresistible charm that will captivate even the most truculent of non-baseball fans. And as a bonus, that "magical" field out in Dyersville, Iowa still exists, and still draws hundreds of thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year.