Field of Dreams
Iowa diamond fantasy
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American film in which an Iowa farmer builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield after hearing a voice say If you build it, he will come.
That line has become a cultural shorthand for faith that creating something will attract the audience or purpose it needs—often invoked skeptically: That's field of dreams thinking; you can't just build an app and assume users will appear.
- baseballBat-and-ball team sport
- baseball diamondShaped playing field
- cornfieldCultivated plot of maize
- corn mazeCarved crop pathway
- IowaGreat Plains farming state
Kevin Costner · whispers · ghosts · diamond · go the distance · heaven · catch · father · son · father and son · play catch · build · voices · Shoeless Joe · crop · magic · nostalgia · twilight
- Sports FilmsRocky, Rudy, Hoosiers, The Natural, Bull Durham
- 1989 FilmsBatman, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy, Do the Right Thing, Glory
- Ballparksbaseball diamond, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Candlestick Park
- Iowa placesDes Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Sioux City, Iowa City
- Midwest traditionscounty fairs, state fair, state fairs, potlucks, church suppers
- Sports Literaturesports fiction, sports memoirs, sports journalism, sportswriting, The Natural
Field of DreamsThe Road
Paved travel surface
Chinatown · Leaving Las Vegas · A Clockwork Orange · Taxi Driver · Glengarry Glen Ross
field, fields, fielded, fielding, fielder, dream, dreams, dreamed, dreamt