Phil Alden Robinson's acclaimed fantasy about a man whose dreams bring him into contact with disgraced baseball legend "Shoeless" Joe Jackson goes into extra innings in this special edition DVD set. This release of Field of Dreams has been transferred to disc in letterboxed format at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which has also been enhanced for anamoprhic play on 16 x 9 monitors. The original English-language audio appears in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1, while a dubbed French-language soundtrack is in Dolby Digital Surround; optional subtitles in Spanish and French are also included. Bonus materials include a commentary track with writer and director Phil Alden Robinson and cinematographer John Lindley; a selection of deleted scenes; a visit to Galena, IL, the city where the film was shot, and the field which was built for the movie and still stands today; a documentary on the film from Bravo's From Page to Screen series; a discussion of the film (hosted by Kevin Costner) and how it relates to family, ambitions, and baseball; and a documentary on the movie's dominant themes, "From Father to Son: Passing Along the Pastime."
Customer Rating
5
Best sports movie ever!
on July 2, 2009
Posted by: TripleT
from Grand Rapids, Michigan
The best sports movie ever is available on a two-disc special edition.
What's great about it: If you watch it, you will like it.
In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend's parents. Greg Focker (Stiller) is completely in love with Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house on Long Island (where her sister is to be married during the weekend) as a perfect opportunity to ask her to marry him. Once Greg is introduced to Pam's parents, however, things stampede steadily downhill. Pam's father, Jack (Robert De Niro), takes an instant and obvious dislike to his daughter's boyfriend, lambasting him for his job as a nurse and generally making Greg painfully aware of the differences between him and Pam's family. Where Greg is grubby, relatively unambitious, and Jewish, Pam comes from a long line of well-mannered, blue-blooded WASPs. Things go from bad to worse in less time than it takes to spin a dreidel, with Greg incurring the wrath of both Pam's father -- who, it turns out, worked for the CIA for 34 years -- and the rest of her family, and almost single-handedly destroying their house and the wedding in the process.
Customer Rating
5
Top ten greatest comedies ever!
on July 2, 2009
Posted by: TripleT
from Grand Rapids, Michigan
The humor in the movie makes it an uncomfortable feeling in the room which is great.