Fever Pitch

PG-13

Released Apr 8, 2005

1 hr. 43 min.

Romance

Comedy

Drama

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When Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore), the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.

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Critics Consensus

While not a home run, Fever Pitch has enough charm and on-screen chemistry between the two leads to make it a solid hit.

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donnie m

cute movie and a 'good song' can really make a movie better as in "sweet caroline"

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/21/24

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Audience Member

As a Yankee fan, I didn’t really want to watch this haha but I was pleasantly surprised. Cute love story, good humor and a nice depiction of having to make the difficult decisions in life.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/19/24

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Jacob B

Admit it, Seth MacFarlane fans. You couldn't care less about this film and only went to see it for the promotional short film for American Dad. Yeah, I know, it was a bit weird that Fox did that. Made even more odd in that this was the only time they attached a short film with a movie targeted towards teenagers, albeit with a soft PG-13 rating. But once you get your head out of the "Just Here for Godzilla" mindset, is Fever Pitch/The Perfect Catch any good? Eh, it's fine. I wouldn't call it a home-run like coming-of-age story The Sandlot but it is a better mix of romance and sports than the milquetoast For Love of the Game. The Farrelly brothers wisely keep the focus on love and baseball without adding any gross-out humour that was their bread and butter back when you could laugh at silliness on the big screen. The story is predictable and the film isn't laugh-out-loud funny like Dumb and Dumber but the leads have good chemistry, the characters are likeable and relatable and Jimmy Fallon does go through some good development throughout as he learns there's more to life than just worship of a baseball team. I do think an advantage of Fallon's cinematic career never truly taking off means that, if you don't watch The Tonight Show clips on YouTube, his character is more relatable as an everyman. Hell, replace baseball with some other thing you're a fan of, like movies, and maybe you'll find it easier to imagine yourself in his shoes. I know I've had insecurities about my cinephilia alienating others. Had his character been portrayed by an A-lister, I'm not sure I'd find them as convincing, even if their performance were fundamentally stronger. The fine balance between getting us normies to relate to him and also making it believable that he and the more-well-known Drew Barrymore could be lovebirds. While the more grounded approach to storytelling might put off fans of the Farrelly Brothers' distinctive brand of humour and anybody looking for any expectation subversion is not going to be satisfied with this film, this remake of a British film I've never seen that replaces the original sport with a more Yankee-friendly pastime was still sweet and charming. True, it's no Jerry Maguire in terms of being a romantic sports film where the protagonists don't participate directly in the sport, but not everything has to be.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/04/24

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alan g

The book was about Arsenalfootbal club. By changing it to Boston Red Sox the y destroyed a beat book. Drew Barrymore is good as usual. Jimmy Fallon can't act. Avoid. Read tge book instead.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/14/24

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KB B

It was ok but I'd never want to watch it again. Let's face it Fallon will never be winning any acting awards any time soon. He was fine in little skits on SNL. Watch if there's nothing better on.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/02/24

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StephenPaul C

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 43 minutes featuring the 2004 World Series Champions, the Boston Red, beating the Saint Louis Cardinals, 4 games to nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's 86 years after the last Championship (1918-2004)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/23/23

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Robert Farrelly

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Peter Farrelly

Director

Drew Barrymore

Lindsey Meeks

Jimmy Fallon

Ben Wrightman

James B. Sikking

Doug Meeks

JoBeth Williams

Maureen Meeks

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

I think it's very ordinary.

Rated: 2/4

May 7, 2014

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William Goss

Film.com

...tries to deal with the messy process of nurturing a proper adult relationship rather than simply shoehorning two lovers into a predictable set of catastrophic circumstances until they finally succumb to one another.

May 29, 2013

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David Germain

Associated Press

Stripped of almost all the brothers' usual crudeness, Fever Pitch proves what we've suspected all along: That beneath the gross-out gags and freak-show humor, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are just a couple of lovable romantics.

Mar 20, 2013

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

To put it in baseball terms, Fever Pitch swings for the fences, only to come up well short of the warning track.

Nov 18, 2019

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Miles Fielder

The List

Fallon and Barrymore make for a likable and funny couple, even if this reasonably amusing film doesn't quite hit a home run.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 25, 2019

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

A slapdash, clumsy, poorly acted and pervasively false film filled with precocious movie kids, nonstop needle drops and a barrage of "washing your balls" jokes.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 26, 2019

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Synopsis

When Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore), the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.

Director: Robert Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: Flower Films, Fox 2000 Pictures, Alan Greenspan Productions, Wildgaze Films
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sensuality|Crude and Sexual Humor)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 8, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 27, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $42.1M
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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