Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated I couldn’t get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

Reiser recalls an unusually private first encounter with Field of Dreams—nearly alone in a theater while working on location—and describes being emotionally overwhelmed (“devastated”) to the point of staying put and immediately rewatching it. The anecdote underscores the film’s reputation as a powerful, tear-inducing story about longing, reconciliation, and the pull of memory (especially around fathers and childhood). His decision to watch it twice suggests not only admiration but a need to process the feelings it stirred, and it highlights how a movie’s impact can be intensified by circumstance: solitude, surprise, and the sense of discovering something profound without the usual social cues of a crowd.