Fever Pitch
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Metascore
55 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

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  • Starring: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell
  • Summary: Paul, and English teacher who is obsessed with English football -- specifically the perennial championship-less Arsenal-- enters into a roller-coaster romance with Sarah who, in the end, is forced to appreciate the virtues of the sport.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    88
    A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    70
    If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    30
    The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. JulieS.
    10
    Sexy Colin Firth. Football. What more could you want?
  2. DonaldW.
    6
    This is the kind of movie that my Mother would have summed as "a cute show." Not high praise but indicative of its entertainment value, even while acknowledging its faults. The latter include sketch comedy acting, mediocre writing and directing that makes many scenes far too long. Nonetheless, Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore are wonderful together and seem to be having a good time, despite it all. And that is enough to make the whole thing, well, cute.… Expand
  3. sfoGuy
    1
    First let me say that I've seen About A Boy and High Fidelity about 3 times each, so I am a big Hornby fan. However, this movie had nothing going for it. It's a story about a stupid guy (and a woman who was stupid to get involved with him). There's nothing redeeming about it, nothing very funny about it, and it is a *huge* disappointment compared to the two films mentioned above. Don't waste your time. Really.… Expand

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