Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Writer: Phil Alden Robinson

Based on a book: Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

Music Composed by: James Horner

Producers: Lawrence Gordon; Charles Gordon

Keywords: Sports Drama, Baseball

Corn farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his cornfield, "If you build it, he will come." Kinsella builds a baseball diamond (with bleachers) in the field. Shoeless Joe Jackson, now-deceased ballplayer banned from baseball since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, returns to play. Among Costner's best roles. Received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Adaptation and Best Original Score.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Timothy Busfield	Actor	12-Jun-1957		thirtysomething
Kevin Costner	Actor	18-Jan-1955		Dances with Wolves
Lee Garlington	Actor	20-Jul-1953		Brenda Baxworth on Everwood
Gaby Hoffmann	Actor	8-Jan-1982		Field of Dreams
James Earl Jones	Actor	17-Jan-1931		Voice of Darth Vader and CNN
Burt Lancaster	Actor	2-Nov-1913	20-Oct-1994	Elmer Gantry
Ray Liotta	Actor	18-Dec-1954		Goodfellas
Amy Madigan	Actor	11-Sep-1950		Places in the Heart
Anne Seymour	Actor	11-Sep-1909	8-Dec-1988	Character actress
Frank Whaley	Actor	20-Jul-1963		The Jimmy Show

CAST

Kevin Costner	...   Ray Kinsella
Amy Madigan	...   Annie Kinsella
Gaby Hoffmann	...   Karin Kinsella
Ray Liotta	...   Shoeless Joe Jackson
Timothy Busfield	...   Mark
James Earl Jones	...   Terence Mann
Burt Lancaster	...   Dr. "Moonlight" Graham
Frank Whaley	...   Archie Graham
Dwier Brown	...   John Kinsella
James Andelin	...   Feed Store Farmer
Mary Anne Kean	...   Feed Store Lady
Fern Persons	...   Annie's Mother
Kelly Coffield	...   Dee, Mark's Wife
Michael Milhoan	...   Buck Weaver (3B)
Steve Eastin	...   Eddie Cicotte (P)
Charles Hoyes	...   Swede Risberg (C)
Art LaFleur	...   Chick Gandil (1B)
Lee Garlington	...   Beulah, the Angry PTA Mother
Mike Nussbaum	...   Principal
Larry Brandenburg	...   PTA Heckler
Mary McDonald Gershon	...   PTA Heckler
Robert Kurcz	...   PTA Heckler
Don John Ross	...   Boston Butcher
Bea Fredman	...   Boston Yenta
Geoffrey Nauffts	...   Boston Pump Jockey
Anne Seymour	...   Chisolm Newspaper Publisher
C. George Biasi	...   First Man in Bar
Howard Sherf	...   Second Man in Bar
Joseph Ryan	...   Third Man in Bar
Joe Glasberg	...   Customer
Additional Ballplayers
Mark Danker	...   Additional Ballplayer
Frank Dardis	...   Additional Ballplayer
Jim Doty	...   Additional Ballplayer
Mike Goad	...   Additional Ballplayer
Jay Hemond	...   Additional Ballplayer
Mike Hodge	...   Additional Ballplayer
Steve Jenkins	...   Additional Ballplayer
Terry Kelleher	...   Additional Ballplayer
Ron Lucas	...   Additional Ballplayer
Fred Martin	...   Additional Ballplayer
Curt McWilliams	...   Additional Ballplayer
Jude Milbert	...   Additional Ballplayer
Steve Olberding	...   Additional Ballplayer
Gene Potts	...   Additional Ballplayer
James Rogh	...   Additional Ballplayer
Paul Scherrman	...   Additional Ballplayer
Dale Till	...   Additional Ballplayer
Tom Vogel	...   Additional Ballplayer
Brian Frankish	...   Clean Shaven Umpire
Jeffrey Neal Silverman	...   Clean Shaven Centerfielder
The Voice	...   Himself

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