Product Details

• Actors: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, John C. Reilly
• Directors: Phil Alden Robinson, Sam Raimi
• Writers: Phil Alden Robinson, Dana Stevens, Michael Shaara, W.P. Kinsella
• Producers: Amy Robinson, Armyan Bernstein
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Run Time: 244 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YNUX
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #132,369 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kevin Costner Double Feature (For Love of the Game/Field of Dreams)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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For Love of the Game
Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is having a bad day. His girlfriend Jane (Kelly Preston, stunning as ever) says she's leaving, and his boss (Brian Cox) says he's selling the business and ace employee Billy may be out of job. Sounds like business as usual for an old-fashioned veteran. However, the business is baseball and for Billy Chapel, the 40-year old former all-star for the Detroit Tigers, it means his career--and his life--is at a crossroads. Although it is no Bull Durham, For Love of the Game finds a solid and very believable role for Costner. The film is based on Michael Shaara's (The Killer Angels) stream-of-consciousness novel (the rough manuscript was found after his death in 1988). The entire film takes place on Billy's day on the mound against the Yankees, a meaningless late-season game for the Tigers, but everything for Billy. In flashbacks, he lingers over his long relationship with Jane and his baseball career (from World Series heroism to a career-threatening injury). His one viable link to the game at hand is his catcher, played winningly by John C. Reilly. Costner, like Chapel, is looking for one more great performance, but the film is too simplistic and loopy at times to resonate. The love story has an extra helping of cuteness, and legendary baseball announcer Vin Scully nearly takes on a leading role, waxing grandiloquent. It's no grand slam, but a solid double. --Doug Thomas

Field of Dreams
A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel Shoeless Joe. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations. It is the film that cemented Kevin Costner's status as an all-American screen star, but the story resonates far beyond Costner's handsome appeal. As just about everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician ... but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion. A meditation on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For The Baseball Fanatic, September 10, 2000

By A Customer

Although I haven't got the DVD yet Field Of Dreams would have to be costner's best movie yet as this brilliant adaption comes to life, with a great supporting cast including: James Earl Jones & Ray Liotta this is a must see... As for the love of the game it is O.K. costner does a feeble attempt at reviving the magic of Field of dreamsbut it doesn't pay off-It comes with the DVD so it is worth watching at least once.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Baseball Movie, with frisbee included, September 15, 2000

By A Customer

Field of Dreams which is in the top 3 of the greatest baseball films of all time is a great purchase, here you get that movie, and For Love Of The Game, which is like a free frisbee to throw around with your dog, or yourself if you are so inclined...