Do I want my children to follow in their father's footsteps, tearing up involuntarily whenever the final scene of Field of Dreams airs on TV, even for the 47th time?
My favourites are his wonderfully spooky scenes of fields of hay drying on poles – filtered through the fertile imagination of a child who imagines them as looking just a little bit more like shadowy figures than they would in real life.
This scene of expanding fields of gold is being replicated across the UK as farmers turn more of their land over to growing rapeseed.
Two plastic chairs are the scene of the field operation.
Its die-cut cover opens to reveal scenes of forests, fields, the seabed, a merry-go-round and skies filled with kites, hot-air balloons and fireworks.
But he knows that behind the picturesque scenes of snowy fields and children gliding around on sleds lurks at least the tiniest threat of a flood, like the one that battered his village and much of the Northeast after the blizzard of 1996.
In a scene straight out of "Field of Dreams," cars are lining up along Wisconsin Highway 85 to see a 60-foot-wide strip of bright yellow sunflowers that stretches for 4.5 miles just southwest of Eau Claire.
Thirty officers, including a firearms team, and two police helicopters were called to the scene of the sighting in fields off Earls Hall Drive in St Osyth, near Clacton.
Animation even vies for attention with the strapping animal puppets that are the true stars of "War Horse," the West End hit imported from the National, with exquisite depictions of fields, battle scenes and horses in motion that appear to be drawn into existence as you watch.
In Sunday's magazine, Taffy Brodesser-Akner writes about the child star Gaby Hoffmann, she of the intense hot-dog scene in "Field of Dreams," who grew up in Lower Manhattan as the daughter of, as Brodesser-Akner puts it, "New York artistic royalty".
