There are two ways you can go with “Field of Dreams” (1989). If you’re an optimist, baseball geek or lover of Kevin Costner in all his old-leather-jacketed, button-down-shirted, blue-jeaned glory, then it’s a fantastical, sweet, nostalgic journey of a middle-aged family man reconnecting with what’s really important in his life. Baseball as a metaphor for (fill in the blank). If you’re a cynic, you just want to shoot the guy who coined the phrase “build it and he will come” because by now you’re sick of it being co-opted by every douchebag real estate developer, PR person and hack journalist.
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