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Fever Pitch
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Nick Hornby
Directed by: David Evans
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 24, 1999
DVD: November 21, 2000
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Luke Aikman, Bea Guard, Neil Pearson, Ruth Gemmel, and Colin Firth
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.
What The Critics Said
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New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Vastly superior to the small and independent films that have come out during the last six months.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's an amiable enough picture, and genuinely insightful about the emotional appeal of devoted fandom.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Anita Gates
Just because a first-person analysis of a sociocultural phenomenon is fascinating in print, it should not necessarily be turned into a movie.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This frantic tale seems at once preachy and incoherent, collapsing into a more or less random collection of disconnected, unfocused scenes.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Julie S. gave it a10:
Sexy Colin Firth. Football. What more could you want?
Donald W. gave it a6:
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.
Antonio C. gave it a 10:
I love Arsenal and I can't do another thing except to...Love this movie! Every time I see that goal from Micheal Thomas, I stand up and start to exult as Paul and Steve!
Andy J. gave it an 8:
If you love football, you'll love it. The book is better, but it's a hard one to adapt for the screen. It's in my top ten movies of all time.
Claudia G. gave it a 9:
Americans do understand, at least this baseball obsessed fan does. This is just a great movie, and I think the critics who don't get it have probably never once in their lives screamed at a sporting event or endured an impossible relationship. Great acting, wonderful script, even a terrific soundtrack. This film's a winner, and should have been released to a wider audience in the U.S. Funny to see that the two most sports oriented NYC dailies gave it glowing reviews.
Daniel G. gave it a 10:
It´s simply the BEST movie ever made about being a football fan. Americans won´t understand.
