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Fever Pitch
EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by:
Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Nick Hornby (novel)
Directed by:
Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 8, 2005
DVD: September 13, 2005
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Baseball, Boston and Drew Barrymore. Certainly sounds like a winning combination.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The picture's consistently entertaining and, though it has few brilliant comic peaks, it never plunges into boring valleys.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Fever Pitch works. At times, it works brilliantly.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer
Sails by on cute dialogue, some funny visual gags, and two enormously likable leads.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Ultimately goes the distance, it gets the job done with a halfhearted bunt rather than a solid line drive.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
As a motion picture, Fever Pitch is merely competent.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Relationship comedy like this is mother's milk to Drew Barrymore, who, as usual, is adorable and perfect.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
I prefer the Farrellys when they're disreputable and push the boundaries of taste, because they're otherwise a tad sentimental.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
But the ickiest thing about Fever Pitch is its reverential Field of Dreams music.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Fever Pitch lacks that Farrelly spark, that warm, crazy glint.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Honestly, this movie would've worked a lot better had the Red Sox not won the World Series.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Ultimately, it's a bore. Don't see the movie – read the book, play the game.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sean K. gave it a5:
The movie was scripted; I could easily guess the outcome at the end of the movie, and what will happen in the next scene before it even started. The fact I could guess what could happen next I felt like there was no reason to watch the movie. I also thought that Jimmy Fallon’s character was just so predictable and fake. I know that there are some diehard Red-Sox fans out there but come on! If you really love this person you should want to be with her all the time you can you should put her first and baseball second. Overall I thought the movie was not great but okay. I would consider it rainy day movie if you fell asleep watching it you would not feel obligated to watch it the next day.
Katherine gave it a10:
I really liked this movie. It was very funny. I am a Drew Barrymore and a Jimmy Fallon fan.
Alicia gave it a1:
It was so boring and dull. I had to watch it in 2 days to get through the movie without falling asleep. It did have a few funny parts, but the overall plot and story behind the movie makes the movie horrible.
Tony B. gave it a7:
You really don't have to be a Boston Red Sox fan to enjoy this film, but it would probably help if you were. "Fever Pitch" has some sensible things to say about fanaticism, loyalty and compromise, and it says them well. The scenes on the field are realistic enough, but those outside Fenway Park and in the stands are the best I've ever seen in a film about baseball. Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon make an engaging couple, and they are complemented by a fine supporting cast.
Brian G gave it a2:
I love baseball. I hate this movie. Jimmy Fallon is a complete idiot in nearly every movie, and this one only exemplifies that even more. The movie is so scripted; you can easily guess the outcome, and what will happen next. Not to mention it is overly exaggerated. I know there are some extreme Red Sox fans, but this is ridiculous.
Elizabeth D. gave it a9:
Not a ten, but still an ah-mazing movie. Hated the thing with the pregency and the Red Sox booty pj thingy but still, great movie. I believe that's it easier to see when your a Red Sox fan but I'm a Yankee fan asnd still loved it - in fact my friend and I made fun of the bodies of all the baseball players thorughout the movie and had a blast. Go fricking see it everyone!
Robert gave it a3:
I gave it a three cause I could see how it might be appealing to some people. Yet it really isn't funny at all and its so cliched. I watched it with about six friends and it seemed every five mins we were correctly predicting what would happen next. Jimmy Fallon is really annoying in just about every movie. So I already have a low opinion of him. This movie is a real dog.
