Kevin Costner Just Said One of His Classic Movies Is Our Generation’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ — For Real

There isn’t another sports movie quite like Field of Dreams. Released in 1989, this fantasy family drama starred Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, a struggling Iowa farmer who struggles even more to achieve his own dreams. To make things increasingly more complicated, he’s told by a mysterious voice to build a baseball field in his backyard. Even stranger, he agrees, the financial strain be damned. For decades, audiences have flocked to Field of Dreams as the spectators do at the end of the film, considering it an inspirational and uplifting tale. Kevin Costner agrees. In fact, he agrees so much that he’s gone so far as to compare his baseball flick to one of the greatest movies ever made, It’s a Wonderful Life, and somehow, it just makes sense.