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Fever Pitch
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and some sensuality
Starring
Drew Barrymore,
Jimmy Fallon,
Jason Spevack,
Jack Kehler,
Scott Severance,
Jessamy Finet,
Maureen Keiller, Lenny Clarke,
and
Ione Skye
A contemporary romantic comedy about a successful woman (Barrymore) who thinks she's finally met the perfect guy (Fallon). Everything seems ideal until baseball season begins, and she has to compete with his true first love: the Boston Red Sox. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Nick Hornby (novel)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 13, 2005
Video: September 13, 2005
Theatrical: April 8, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie has been directed by the Farrelly brothers...Here, they're sensitive and warm-hearted, never push too hard, empathize with the characters, allow Lindsey and Ben to become people we care about.

88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Baseball, Boston and Drew Barrymore. Certainly sounds like a winning combination.

80
Variety
Brian Lowry
The Farrelly brothers are growing up, which in this case isn't a bad thing. With a tacked-on ending made necessary by the Boston Red Sox's improbable World Series run last fall, Fever Pitch proves a charming romantic comedy against "A Beautiful Mind"-type framework.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A curious mix of smarts and schmaltz.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.

75
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
The gall of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. To think that a romantic comedy might work absent a sleazy wager or maddening miscommunication takes a lot of chutzpah.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The picture's consistently entertaining and, though it has few brilliant comic peaks, it never plunges into boring valleys.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Fever Pitch works. At times, it works brilliantly.

70
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Sails by on cute dialogue, some funny visual gags, and two enormously likable leads.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Ultimately goes the distance, it gets the job done with a halfhearted bunt rather than a solid line drive.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Sweet and often hilarious.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
This is Hollywood Hornby: not terrible, but not worth crossing a busy street for, and nowhere near as memorable as what the Sox did last year.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
As a motion picture, Fever Pitch is merely competent.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
By contrast, 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.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Relationship comedy like this is mother's milk to Drew Barrymore, who, as usual, is adorable and perfect.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
For all its various failures, Fever Pitch taps expertly into our nostalgia for an era when baseball really was the American pastime, unsullied by money, drugs or celebrity.
60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
To call this "Farrelly brothers lite" may be a little redundant, but aside from the odd vomit gag, it goes relatively easy on their usual working-class taboo busting.

60
The New Yorker
David Denby
Has a slapdash feeling to it.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Barrymore has rarely been so bright and effortlessly charming, but it's all lost on Fallon, who often resembles one of those unfortunate SNL guests who freeze up on live TV, completely out of their element. If Fallon wants a life after SNL, he might want to try another medium.

60
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Still, despite the visual clumsiness and the production's tattered seams, I found myself rooting for this movie anyway, partly because Lindsey and Ben make a nice fit, as do the actors playing them, partly because the Farrellys bring so much heart to their movies, and partly because Ms. Barrymore inspires more goodwill than any other young actress I can think of working today in American movies.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
If you're rooting for Barrymore and Fallon, then why not their team? In the movies, there are enough happy endings for everyone.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
I prefer the Farrellys when they're disreputable and push the boundaries of taste, because they're otherwise a tad sentimental.

60
Empire
Miles Fielder
Not a Farrelly brothers classic, and (some testicle-washing aside) not much in the way of their trademark gross-out humour, but the boys from Boston do an admirable job of transferring Hornby's story into the States and onto the baseball diamond.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Passably entertaining.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The movie is so soggy and anonymous, I had to remind myself that the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed it. It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Fever Pitch is surprisingly devoid of jokes, or romance, or any of the other basic elements you'd expect to find in a romantic comedy. The only thing the Farrellys get right is the obsession.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
But the ickiest thing about Fever Pitch is its reverential Field of Dreams music.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
If anything, Fever Pitch will give Bosox fans one more chance to relive, in big-screen glory, those fleeting, flavorsome days.

50
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
One-dimensional fluff piece.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Fever Pitch lacks that Farrelly spark, that warm, crazy glint.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
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 whatsoever.

40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Honestly, this movie would've worked a lot better had the Red Sox not won the World Series.

40
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Unfunny, charmless and hopelessly ordinary.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's almost too dull to pan.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Ultimately, it's a bore. Don't see the movie – read the book, play the game.


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