{"id":634416,"date":"2026-03-20T23:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:47:29","slug":"twinkietown-movie-night-field-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634416\/","title":{"rendered":"TwinkieTown Movie Night: Field of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin<\/a><\/p>\n

Kevin Costner holding Gaby Hoffmann in a scene from the film \u2018Field Of Dreams\u2019, 1989. (Photo by Universal\/Getty Images) Getty Images<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your link for the movie<\/a>! It\u2019s from a Strange Site, but most internet security experts consider it pretty safe (for streaming; I wouldn\u2019t try downloading). It has no commercials, so no sync issues! Sync issues are a pain on Movie Nights! Start the show at 7:30!<\/p>\n

When I was about 25 or so, I cut off all contact with my Cruel Dad. Just, \u201choly crap, I can take no f*****g more of this, go away and stay away.\u201d<\/p>\n

My three younger brothers all thought this was monstrous. So the next-oldest brother stepped in to rebuild a relationship with Dad, and prove me wrong.<\/p>\n

After a few years, that brother told Dad \u201cgo away and stay away.\u201d The two youngest brothers thought this was monstrous. So the next-oldest tried to fix things with Dad…<\/p>\n

You can see where this is headed, right?<\/p>\n

My very youngest brother tried the hardest. And eventually changed his name. He came to hate Dad so much, he didn\u2019t want the name Fillmore on his passport or Social Security card. The name itself sickened him.<\/p>\n

You can quite fairly say that I\u2019m a loser failure and my Dad should have been nasty to me, I deserved it.<\/p>\n

You say that about my brothers, you\u2019re an idiot.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019ll have to forgive me if the \u201cgetting better with Dead Dad\u201d aspect of this movie feels, to me, like absolute and total bullcrap.<\/p>\n

The excellent baseball blogger Craig Calcaterra agrees with this<\/a>, and he probably liked his dad! He writes, \u201cwe know that Ray rejected John\u2019s passion \u2014 baseball \u2014 but what things which were important to Ray did John reject or fail to respect? We have no idea, of course, because the movie presents this as a one-sided lack of respect showed by Ray toward his father, communicated only through baseball and resolved via a game of catch. If you had your own legitimate, complex and unresolved issues with your late father, I suspect this is all rather insulting. If you\u2019re someone who got on well with your dad and actually communicated with him in a healthy manner, this wholly un-sketched conflict is sort of a problem given that a filmmaker is in the business of telling a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well put. But, all that said, this movie has some good actors.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t be around for this one, I\u2019m on the vacation I can afford: a Road Trip! No flights to Cannes for this movie fan. Just a drive with some cheap motels.<\/p>\n

Everybody behave! Eh, I know you will.<\/p>\n

Movie Nights have been fun! I\u2019ve seen Dennis Quaid doing the best acting moment<\/a> of his career, Bob Fosse\/Gwen Verdon doing a back-to-back<\/a> crab walk in Damn Yankees, and learned how I should check Slavic bootleg links a bit more carefully.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m up for doing these next year, too, yet we\u2019ll see what happens between now and then. But honestly? I\u2019ve liked these more than the last few seasons of game threads. Twins games just make me mad at how the team is run, now. (And how MLB is run overall; the Twins have bad owners but they are BY NO MEANS outliers.)<\/p>\n

Movie Nights never make me mad. I already assumed the movie industry was owned\/run by a-holes and, in rare moments, the talents of individual artists still shone through. That\u2019s movies, it\u2019s how movies have always been, and anybody who spends more than a month seriously looking into movie history knows this. (It\u2019s kinda how baseball is, too.)<\/p>\n

Thanks a ton to Matt for showing up frequently with fascinating Film Facts (often better than the ones I found!), and gintzer, sandwiches, Zach and nagurski for popping in every now and then.<\/p>\n

And especially thanks to artist, who always brought a keen eye and sharp wit and made these a blast. I\u2019m so happy folks enjoyed Stop Making Sense! Even with the Lamp Dance.<\/p>\n

With K.M. Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan. Written\/directed by Phil Alden Robinson, from a 1982 novel by W.P. Kinsella. (Who turned<\/a> his love for baseball to Scrabble after the 1984 strike.) You can read some interesting production history<\/a> about the movie on Wiki; good comment material!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your link again for the movie<\/a>! Start the show at 7:30!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner holding Gaby Hoffmann in a scene from the film \u2018Field Of Dreams\u2019, 1989. (Photo by Universal\/Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,80253,3190,4,148,80254],"class_list":{"0":"post-634416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesota-twins-discussion","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins","15":"tag-twins-book-club"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116264177266008558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}