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Ray meeting Terrence Mann in Boston

First nominee: Ray meets Shoeless Joe, is this heaven, no it's Iowa; a quick Liotta imitation; this was a year before Goodfellas, when he was a critic's darling after Something Wild; he still has never seen the movie and thought the script was dumb.

Liotta plays Joe Jackson like a sensitive, dew-eyed guy from 1989 rather than a period Black Sox type, which is perfect because he seems like a ghost who doesn't know he is one; a Chantix commercial with him in the cornfield and a second-half-of-Goodfellas Henry Hill emerging from the corn are joked about.

"You see, that's the sort of crap people are always trying to lay on me"

A lot of candidates: Ray never having done a crazy thing until he heard the voice, you build it, he will come, that's the sort of crap people are always trying to lay on me, it's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father, hey, Dad, you want to have a catch, and the this is Terrence Mann, Easter Bunny exchange, which is really funny.

The film

Field of Dreams (1989)

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson · Drama

106 minutes

Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Kevin Costner Ray Kinsella
Amy Madigan Annie Kinsella
James Earl Jones Terence Mann
Ray Liotta Shoeless Joe Jackson
Burt Lancaster Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham Frank Whaley as young Archibald Graham

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