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First time I saw this film, I’d rented it (VHS) and watched with my (then) 10 year old daughter. When it ended, we turned to each other and at the same time, said, “We GOTTA watch that again! So we rewound it and watched it again.

No shit…..I just watched it yesterday!! One of my favorite feel good films

It is poetry in motion.

It’s my all time favorite movie! I knew the first time I saw it how deep and special it is. I love being taken back to the feelings it brings.

That movie is SO good. The dialogue, the depth of characters...

Preach it!

Parenthood came out when I had teenagers. It was my touchstone.

You won’t regret it 👊🏼

Took our kids to go play there on the movie location as part of a family out west (from Detroit) road trip 20 years ago when they were in elementary school and in their baseball/softball years. Still a treasured family memory - and the movie is more poignant for all of us as we age.

Great film.

Eight Men Out is a good one too.

Kind of like Gary Cooper; just somehow works

On my favorite list ❤️

Good movies & good books do that. Ain’t it wonderful?

Guessing by your name this tape from the ‘90s will also make you happy. 6+ hours recorded from tv, complete with commercials, Homer having hair, weather alerts, etc.

I keep telling people, especially non-Americans... it's not actually about baseball. Greatest film ever.

First movie I ever saw in the theater where everyone applauded at the end. That didn’t happen back then.

It's posterity and pride James Earl Jones is amazing as is pretty much every actor in that thing. An idea so preposterous is made to be tempting. I just think everyone involved loved baseball and that's why it turned out so good

Ray Liotta's laugh

I've been itching to rewatch this for the first time as an adult and since my dad died, but I also don't wanna be sad and ugly cry.

Man I miss James Horner.

As someone whose father passed away before I was born, I still ball my eyes out at that last scene….and I’m 58!

My father died relatively young, 50 when I was 21, one last game of catch with your dad scene leaves me in tears whenever I watch the movie. If only… It’s easily the best baseball movie ever and a great movie overall. The all star game should be played in a corn field in Iowa. Just my opinion.

How did it take you this long?!? Unapologetically schmaltzy and Capraesque, but how can one not love that? If your eyes are dry when the music swells just as Ray catches the ball from his dad, then you are not human. People will come, Ray. Is this heaven? It's Iowa.

My hometown. One of the Lansing daughters babysat for us and would take us out the the farm to run around. Still have some trauma from what I saw in the milking barn. My folks were in the last shot with all the cars.

I am an avowed lover of Adam West from Walla Walla. Watching the Batman series as an adult, I picked up a lot of stuff I did not get as a child. RIP Adam.

Ok can you send me the link soni can watch it can you send me a private message

Always love a good Amy Madigan movie.

I can't help but to watch it

You should try Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension next. John Lithgow is a hoot

I watched it 100 times and still cry at the end everytime.

I was living in Dubuque when it debuted in theatres. Amazing film

Yes, one of the few guy movies that will make a guy cry aka suddenly have something in your eye.

Agreed. It is a masterpiece imho

Having kids makes a lot of films hit harder!

you Nazi cow

It hit me like a ton of bricks as an adult

Preparing for Thursday?

Gives me goosebumps

A favorite. I cry every time.

I grew up near where they filmed that and watched them film some of it. I was 9. I actually thought they were doing a tv movie. But I recall being excited the guy that did Darth Vader was there. Didn’t see him unfortunately. If you had told me then though…

Great movie

Never, NEVER, never trust a baseball movie involving Kevin Costner. It's always, ALWAYS, always a chick flick DISGUISED as a baseball movie. Bull Durham, For Love Of The Game, Field of Dreams.

Craig Calcaterra famously LOATHES this movie

I watched Interstellar again and whew, same.

I know it’s a cliché, but the book is sooooo much better

My fiancé and I used to have movie night at least once a week and that was in our arsenal of movies. God I miss him

Go the distance.

WATCH STEVE EASTON, THE PITCHER. THEY HAD HIM IN THE OUTFIELD, BUT, IMPRESSED WITH HIS PHYSICALITY, MOVED HIM UP TO A MORE VISIBLE SPOT.

😅 thanks a lot guys. Now i'm gonna be up till all houts rewatching

My favorite film alongside Dances With Wolves.

And I love Amy Madigan.

One of my all time faves 🎥 🍿

You promise? It was one of 5 VHS videos my dad ever bought. Let’s just say I feel I can almost recite every scene.

Lovely movie. The field of dreams game makes me cry now.

Waiting for the Field of Dreams game with the Phillies. That movie is one of my favorites and always brings it home why I love baseball.

Burt Lancaster was great in that, as he was in everything he was ever in. What a badass he was. Of course he chose to save the girl!

There's a lot of gold in these older movies.

We have been rewatching movies too. Def another kind of experience as an adult.

Go the distance

Always makes me cry at the end...

People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

It’s heavenly.

Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Minnesota, baseball. Wth an Allman Brothers soundtrack! Cry everytime 😢 What's not to love.

Thanks for all you do 👊🏼

Awesome! 👏🏼 Great, historical town.

Here is a twist few people know of: the Author 'WP Kinsella' was Canadian who lived in a small town I grew up in, in British Columbia called White Rock - just on the Canadian side of the border in BC. Yup, this pivotal fictional piece of American history was written by a Canadian. You're welcome.

Took the kids to watch it on a blanket in the outfield at CHS Field. Was perfect.

Crying in 3...2... Hey, Dad, you wanna have a catch?

My father‘s been gone for a decade, and I argue with him in my head almost every day. So much unresolved. The concept of being able to see him again, shake his hand as a grown-ass man is almost overwhelming. We’d be working on an engine in the shop, not having a catch, but it’s the same thing

One of my two go to films to make me feel good. I could bore you reciting all the dialogue. A truly wonderful, yet underated film.

I keep meaning to rewatch this film. I haven't seen it since it was in theaters. I really liked it.

i just watched it again recently as an adult as well. i had a similar experience.

You just made me feel really, really old lol.

So many feels. And what a performance from James Earl Jones! That scene in Boston when stands in front of the headlights "Moonlight Graham!" Chills!!!

It's an Easter egg. Burt Lancaster wanted like crazy to play Don Corleone but Coppola and Puzo wanted Brando. So it was a nice little douceur for Lancaster.

My family is from Iowa. My Dad played college ball. I played baseball as well. Dyersville was in our HS conference. I still have his signed ball from when he played in the JUCO World Series. We played catch. A lot. I am glad he got to see me become a man. All I wanted was to do right by him.

Cry every time he asks his dad if he wants to have a catch. EVERY time. I didnt even like my dad that much.

Back when I was ten, Blake Edwards's "10" came out, and all anyone could talk about was Bo Derek. When I watched it again in my 40s, man, it's like a totally different movie.

Absolute masterpiece.

We watch it at least once a month in our household.

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Yeah! They gave away free tickets to anyone that was actually alive the last time the Indians won a pennant that year! It was pretty cool!

No. Bull Durham.

Its my favorite film. Kevin was supposed to marry me, but damn if he could find me.

I saw both that and Dead Poets Society repeatedly. O, for the days where just going to the cinema was a nice cheap way to spend an afternoon.

its a classic

Well now I’m getting emotional. My favorite sport is baseball but whenever my kids ask me to kick the ball around, go for a bike ride, whatever, I hear that French horn in the background lol

If you think Moonlight Graham was impressive, check out his brother Frank Porter Graham. Historian, professor, president of the University of North Carolina, president of the UNC system, US Senator, and UN mediator in the India-Pakistan conflict.

It was four years after I did not make it in Minor League spring training. I was with my now wife, and I lost it at that scene. Hit me like a ton of bricks. First time in my life I cried like that in public.

Burt Lancaster knew how to steal a scene!

The timeless Burt Lancaster.

It is indeed. ♥️♥️♥️

book is also amazing

Phillies play there August 13th, Netflix!

The character, Annie Kinsella (Amy Madigan), in the town hall/school board scene is my favorite. youtube.com/watch?v=WN0_...

And that they had to OVERDUB THE LAST LINE OF THE MOVIE... still breaks my head.

Oh, the love of this movie is powerfully reflected in our collective memories below! Here's one more... Hey... "kid." "Sorry, Kid!" Karen - "I don't mind!!"

A classic!

My kid wants to watch the Netflix special- I didn't even know the game was an annual thing. We watched the movie trailer. I told my husband this looks weird. Then we watched the book banning clip & I jumped off the couch, screaming "FUCK YEAH ANNIE!!!" So yeah we'll probably watch it this evening.

It has been one of my favorite movies for a long time. It’s about more than baseball.

It’s a great movie.

People will come…..

And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon.......

Precisely why it’s my absolute FAVORITE movie of all time.

Thank you for this post - it inspired me to watch the film today. A movie I loved as a teen is so much more as someone in their 50's. Thanks Aaron!

Correction, it is on Thursday.

You went the distance!

"Hey dad....wanna have a catch" ruins me every time