This is the kind of smart, embraceable romantic comedy Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn might have made if they were alive and in their prime today.
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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
They can do it. Peter and Bobby Farrelly can actually make a movie that doesn't include one fart joke. Wow.
04/08/05
A thin shell of Hornby’s original work, with a typical threadbare rom-com shoehorned into it, like an eight-hundred pound monster trying to cram itself into a size 30 jacket.
04/08/05
Both funny and a bit gut-wrenching... 'You're a romantic,' Lindsey tells Ben. So, it turns out, are the Farrellys...
04/08/05
The best Hollywood rom-com since My Best Friend's Wedding.
04/07/05
conveys that aura of a summer night at the ballpark -- made even better by newfound love
04/07/05
Sadly, Fever Pitch doesn't touch on the pathos of being a baseball fan. It's a romantic comedy where baseball is just in the way, kinda like Jimmy Fallon.
04/07/05
Fever Pitch relaxes too much at the plate, fouling off (and shaving) too many balls to get us pumped enough for the next game and likely to be forgotten by the first of May.
04/07/05
The oddest thing of all is that, despite this bizarre mix of chefs, Fever Pitch actually works.
04/07/05
at its best when it offers brief, boisterous glimpses into the strange relationship between fan and team
04/07/05
Other Hornby screen adaptations are About a Boy and High Fidelity -- superb comedies both and, in Fidelity's case, a treatise on male obsession with far more depth and even more laughs.
04/07/05
Hornby’s tale of sports obsession has become yet another generic romantic comedy.
04/07/05
It's a prettified view of love, for sure, but as Sox fans would surely attest, sometimes fairy tale dreams do come true.
04/07/05
Top CriticA moderately enjoyable romantic comedy that does its job as a date movie, but is so innocuous, instantly forgettable and free of the Farrelly brothers' trademark visual humor that it's sure to disappoint the directors' die-hard following.
04/07/05
Fever Pitch may be something short of miraculous, but perhaps it isn't how you play the game that matters after all, as long as you have a "winning" personality.
04/07/05
Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s direction is more restrained and more effective than in their trademark wacky films
04/07/05
Even Boston Red Sox fans are likely to turn away in disgust.
04/07/05
The love story is a true microcosm of the emotional rise and fall the Red Sox fans have felt every year for 86 years
04/07/05
Fallon's a second stringer to Barrymore's big leagues, but "Fever Pitch" is still a winner
04/07/05
The Hollywood studio de-flavorizing machine has toned the Farrellys down and flattened them out and the result is perfectly enjoyable but perfectly forgettable.
04/07/05
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