Movie Review: Field of Dreams (1989)

The main thing I took away from the movie is that there are a lot of nuances that only adults would understand.  So although the movie is liked by younger boys, I believe they only understand a small portion of the story, and I know that from my own experience.  I'm not sure when I saw the movie for the first time.

Here are the nuances, which I understand better having put on a few more years. Spoilers up ahead

• Ray and Annie Kinsella (Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan) are "children of the 60s" (having a youth that shaped who you are)
• Annie's acceptance of Ray's vision (need for marriage to have unity, the trust of a wife)
• Having an estranged father, and the last thing you said to him was really rude and hateful, and you didn't have a chance to take it back before he died (major regrets, the way a grown man thinks about his father)
• Doc Graham, and the other players reach their dreams (understanding how it feels to not reach your dream)
• They are losing money and are about to be foreclosed upon by Annie's brother (financial pressures, feeling like failures, marriage adversity, in-laws problems)
• The town hall argument about banning a book by fictional author Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) from the 60s (ideological differences, politics)

So there was more to this movie than I remembered, and I enjoyed it this time.  My least favorite part was the somewhat cheesy speech at the end, which is supposed to tie everything together.  Then when cars were pulling up...it just seemed that the timing was off, and the cars shouldn't have been there immediately.