The Dryden will screen Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, U.S. 1989, 107 min., 35mm) followed by a discussion with writer/director Phil Alden Robinson as part of the America's Favorite Pastime series.

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is an Iowa corn farmer with some demons in his past. He begins to hear voices and see visions related to baseball. After plowing under part of his crop to build a baseball field, he is led by the voices on a road trip, meeting along the way a bitter radical (James Earl Jones) and a retired physician (Burt Lancaster)—all of this in an attempt to heed the voices' plea to "ease his pain." Baseball is magic in this film, bringing past and present together in a healing act that will give you a second chance, if only you believe. If we show it, you will come.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jul-31]