There isn’t another sports movie quite likeField of Dreams.

Even stranger, he agrees, the financial strain be damned.

But whenRich Eisenbrought upField of Dreams, the conversation took an interesting turn.

Kevin Costner sitting in a field with light shining around him.

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“There’s something endearing about that movie,“Costner began.

“Its really aboutthings that go unsaid between fathers and sons,and thats pretty biblical, right?”

But this is when the interview gets especially interesting.

Kevin Costner and Ray Liotta as Ray Kinsella and Shoeless Joe Jackson talking on the baseball field in Field of Dreams

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After this, Costner asks a question that few have likely asked before.

“Is this our generation’sIt’s a Wonderful Life?”

And yet, there’s a strange truth attached to Costner’s question.

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That is until he’s pushed too far.

It’s then that things take a powerful and surprising turn.

The thing is, Ebert, and by extension, Costner, is right.

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