The screenplay, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, struggles to make up for a fundamental lack of suspense.
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04/08/05
Fever Pitch (2005)
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Reviews Counted:169
Fresh:107
Rotten:62
Average Rating:6.2/10
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Romance,
Synopsis: The Farrelly Brothers (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, DUMB & DUMBER) take a slight departure from their signature breed of over-the-top, gross-out humor and opt instead for sensitive restraint with... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Clarke, Jack Kehler
Director: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Reviews for Fever Pitch
Rarely approaches a fever pitch. Or even a minor frenzy.
04/08/05
It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed.
04/08/05
It's like some baseball games, where a few nice hits or a double play have to sustain you through a lot of long, dull, lifeless innings. Steroids, of course, are bad for baseball. But they might have helped bulk up this movie.
04/08/05
What the movie has, besides an amusing grasp of baseball fanaticism, is the Farrellys' rare and ingratiating habit of treating all their characters decently.
04/08/05
This Fever isn't catching.
04/08/05
Given the gift of the Sox's amazing ride of 2004, the filmmakers have ingeniously crafted a narrative that strings a romance along as a parallel to a widely remembered baseball season.
04/08/05
The Curse of the Bambino lives. And by now, it's spread to the backlot.
04/08/05
What were the odds that the guys who launched their careers with Dumb And Dumber would give us one of the funniest, smartest date movies in years?
04/08/05
What an adorable, genuinely funny and romantic, delightfully twisted ditty!
04/08/05
A colleague of mine recently described Jimmy Fallon as the perfect romantic comedy ‘best friend’- that is, the guy who cracks wise at all of the romantic lead’s shenanigans.
04/08/05
At the movie's core is a question that all couples face: How much of one's identity must a person give up in order to make a relationship work? The filmmakers show good marketing sense in balancing the romantic elements with sports.
04/08/05
Sometimes hitters can get caught just looking at that curve fall in for a strike, and all they can do is wonder how they fell for something so light. Plenty of people will leave Fever Pitch with that feeling.
04/08/05
The only thing the Farrellys get right is the obsession, but even the most forgiving Red Sox fan will agree their team deserved more than this.
04/08/05
[It's] never as fun to watch as it looks like it was to be there. And it never quite manages to incorporate what we know is an upbeat foregone conclusion with the lovable-loser, maybe-next-year tone of the film.
04/08/05
The Sox won the World Series. Rarely have filmmakers had a more wildly improbable happy ending forced on them. Well, you need all the help you can get, divine or otherwise, when your two stars -- Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon -- have no chemistry.
04/08/05
Can be funny and endearing when you don't dwell on the black hole that is Jimmy Fallon.
04/08/05
The Farrellys, good New England boys that they are, revel in the baseball minutiae, right down to an opening flashback scene at Fenway Park that shows '70s stars Dwight Evans and Jim Rice during batting practice.
04/08/05
Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon make an appealing on-screen couple in this insightful romantic comedy.
04/08/05
[The movie] asks what is truly required of growing up, then splits the emotional difference.
04/08/05
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