Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, and based on Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. The film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) and the Chicago Black Sox. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster (in his final film role before his death in 1994) also star.

Ray Kinsella lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin, on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa. Troubled by his broken relationship with his deceased father, John, a devoted baseball fan, Ray fears growing old without ever having done anything to achieve his dreams.  While walking through his cornfield one evening, Ray hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come". he sees a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield and the ghost of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson standing in the middle. Annie agrees to uproot part of their field to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.  So he lays out a baseball diamond in his cornfield, and who should show up but long-dead ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson and a squadful of departed Major Leaguers.