It has some heart and some laughs, but the sense of emotional risk has been smoothed down to a formulaic nub.
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04/07/05
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
A movie worth catching.
04/07/05
A dandy, heart-warming, fun-filled date movie - corny but charming.
04/07/05
[The film] should have been an easy home run. Instead it scored on a walk.
04/07/05
This thoroughly winning if not especially good romantic comedy by Peter and Bobby Farrelly is loosely based on the Nick Hornby memoir of the same title.
04/07/05
Top Critic...less of Peter and Bobby Farrelly's specialty -- the politically incorrect freak show with feeling -- and more of a conventional collection of gags and romance.
04/07/05
The film centers on someone obsessed with a sports team, but the story's universality lies in the way that it can act as a metaphor of a variety of stumbling blocks in a relationship.
04/07/05
If you know anything about romantic comedies and professional baseball, you will find no surprises in Fever Pitch. But you will find a dandy date movie.
04/07/05
This is, at best, a distinctly low-grade 'Fever.' If not a foul ball, barely earns a single.
04/07/05
At times, it works brilliantly, bringing the fanatic (and mostly male) world of baseball geekdom into collision with the planet where women strive for career success and true love, usually with painful disappointment in one department or the other.
04/07/05
The key to a romantic comedy working is often whether the filmmakers invest the audience in the plight of the main characters. Do we have a rooting interest in these two getting together? This is something the Farrellys accomplish.
04/07/05
Suffers from imperfect pitch.
04/07/05
The most consistently funny motion picture of the year so far, and also its sweetest. Once over, audiences won't so much walk out of the theater as they will float out.
04/07/05
There is a solid romance at its core, one in which we root for the lovers to find a way to stay together because they are so fresh and funny and because the problems they cope with feel real.
04/07/05
Might be the first baseball comedy girls convince their guys to see. By the end, both will be pointing at the screen and saying, 'You see, that's how I feel about sports.'
04/07/05
“Fever Pitch” becomes a pretty insightful take on how much of ourselves we willingly give up when we enter a relationship, and how much we hang onto.
04/07/05
A paean to Boston Red Sox fandom that even a Yankee fan can appreciate.
04/07/05
Even their antiseptic laugh-o-meter approach to screenwriting cannot completely wring the sincerity out of Fever Pitch.
04/07/05
It's frequently amusing and awfully sweet.
04/07/05
A sweet, faux pas-free, Red Sox-adoring love story based on Nick Hornby's memoir of the same name.
04/07/05
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