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Fever Pitch

Play trailer 2:23 Poster for Fever Pitch PG-13 Released Apr 8, 2005 1h 43m Romance Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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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David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) I think it's very ordinary. Rated: 2/4 May 7, 2014 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Larry K One of my favorite baseball movies ever Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review Haruki H It is an absolute must-see for both sports and romance fans. It felt so real that I forgot I was watching a movie. It can make you sad for a while but then makes you happy again like it literally has every mood in it. The music is also great. It is such a nice comedy romance. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/01/24 Full Review Alan g The original book was about Arsenal Football Club. The director and writer ruined it by making a movie about the red sox. Bad movie horrible acting. Why do these hollywood hacks think they can do better than the original source. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/05/24 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Gil Netter, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen, Alan Greenspan, Bradley Thomas
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
Runtime
1h 43m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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