As a feel-good romance, Fever Pitch undoubtedly excels.
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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
The Farrellys get soft and cuddly.
04/07/05
Pitch is a sweet concoction, a valentine to the Red Sox, and a genial romantic comedy. It may not hit a home run, but it has some good hustle to it.
04/07/05
A light-hearted romantic comedy about a young couple trying to sort out their priorities about love. work and sports.
04/07/05
Fever Pitch strikes out.
04/06/05
The Farrellys, who haven't found their comic stroke since Me, Myself & Irene, make some moves that would make a giant "E" pop up on the scoreboard.
04/06/05
It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.
04/06/05
Neither the cleverness of Hornby's source material nor the easy Farrelly laughs...safe but ultimately disappointing.
04/06/05
There are serious issues--life choices--at the center of Fever Pitch, the new Farrellys' comedy, but the film is not funny enough, and Falllon is not a romantic lead.
04/06/05
...gets by on the same kind of lovable-loser charm that has kept its main character obsessed with the Boston Red Sox since age 7.
04/05/05
Obsessed fans, you’ve won no converts.
04/05/05
Think of Fever Pitch as the phone booth--though the Kryptonite could be any combination of Ganz & Mandel, Fallon, or Barrymore.
04/05/05
Boilerplate rom-com autopilot. Mealy-mouthed Fallon could've been a Trekkie or a member of the Kiss Army for all this movie cares about baseball.
04/05/05
This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen about what it means to be a diehard fan.
04/04/05
Fever Pitch is not just some comedy about two people meeting each other halfway, but something greater: a statement about the wheeling and dealing of a tradition.
04/04/05
It feels like a movie that ought to star Adam Sandler, but makes do with Taxi’s metrosexual Jimmy Fallon.
04/04/05
Where’s Adam Sandler when you need him!?!
04/03/05
Still, as mediocre as Barrymore and Fallon are in this movie, we wind up liking them anyway and rooting for them to get their happy ending.
04/02/05
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