Field Of Dreams Movie Site

There may never be another baseball movie as good as Field of Dreams. The film plays on tropes of youth lost, the inhibitions of adulthood, trials against odds, and all amidst the backdrop of cornfields and baseball.

The film is set in rural Iowa, where a novice farmer begins to hear voices while walking the cornfield. He believes the voices are telling him to plow the corn and build a ball field, which he, and the movie crew, do.

“If you build it, he will come.”

The film’s $84 million gross inspired the owners to commercialize their portions.

The Lansing family kept their parcel – much of the field – intact and set up for souvenirs. The Ameskamp family owned left and center field, and wanted it grow corn.

“How about a catch, Dad?”

Before long cooler heads prevailed, and the land is now wholly owned by the Lansing’s, who are somewhat private about their property but have kept the field intact.