Word: costners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chain is digging deep for the extra cash ? its two largest shareholders and a trust for Earl's own children have agreed to pony up $30 million to help keep the company going. Right now, that?s looking like about as good an investment as a big-budget Kevin Costner directorial effort...
...Kinsella, Costner's character, brings Graham to Iowa and gives him the chance to live his fantasy by playing on the aptly-named Field of Dreams with his baseball heroes...
JOHN DALY Golfer falls off wagon, refuses help, loses endorsements. Has Kevin Costner movie all over...
...Costner still twinkles and steams plausibly, but all else about the film is ludicrous. The nattering violins, orgasmic from the first moment, alert you that director Sam Raimi has either no control of the production or no belief in the material. And why should he believe? Dana Stevens' script buries the compelling story of an athlete's career crisis under a no-fun affair he has with a charmless woman (Kelly Preston--big mistake) and a daughter problem that adds 15 minutes of emotional lard. As domestic drama, it's down there with Stepmom. And much of the jock stuff...
There is a small, forlorn fraternity that thinks The Postman, Costner's widely reviled postapocalyptic romance, is a decent movie, acutely alert to the perils and pleasures of mythmaking. Maybe audiences will forgive Costner for making that noble flop and welcome him back to the baseball-weepie lode he mined in the sappy, canny Field of Dreams. (He even plays catch with his dead dad again.) Or perhaps, like this dogged Costner fan, you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning...