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Shoeless Joe is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella that was later adapted into the 1989 film Field of Dreams, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. The novel was expanded from Kinsella's short story "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa", first published in his 1980 collection of the same name.
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, 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 ...
The book was mildly controversial for using a living person, the reclusive author J. D. Salinger, as a main character. Kinsella, who had never met him, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his reclusiveness) based on The Catcher in the Rye, a book that had great meaning to him as a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he reread his ...
“Field of Dreams,” based on the 1982 W.P. Kinsella book “Shoeless Joe,” earned three Academy Award nominations and was chosen in 2017 for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the ...
He made note of his unusual career, and then incorporated Graham as a character in his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, on which the movie Field of Dreams was based. [10] Much of the description of Graham's life in the novel came from the people of Chisholm as Kinsella visited seeking information on him.
Jul. 29—HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania altered its process to get new nursing school graduates into the workforce more quickly in an effort to counter a shortage that continues to plague health ...
Field of Dreams: also screenwriter, adapting Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella: 1992 Sneakers: also co-screenwriter with Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes: 2000 Freedom Song: also co-writer with Stanley Weiser: 2002 The Sum of All Fears: based on the novel by Tom Clancy: 2014 The Angriest Man in Brooklyn: based on The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum by ...
Last year’s “Sound of Freedom” made a splash at the box-office appealing to conspiracy theorists and religious groups and convincing audiences that watching it was a morally righteous action ...