Fever Pitch

Pros: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, some insightful moments
Cons: The screenplay is rather ordinary

Love has come twice into the life of Ben Wrightman. When he was a boy, his uncle started taking the boy to Boston Red Sox games, and the boy became a fan in the process. The uncle (Lenny Clarke) warned Ben that the Red Sox would only break his heart, as ...

Pros: funny, cute, involves baseball, Jimmy Fallon
Cons: Very formulaic, relationship sort of 'faked'

The Farrelly brothers have brought us a new romantic comedy with the film Fever Pitch. The story starts out simple enough, with a boy and a girl starting to fall for each other. They bridge the gap between the differences in their jobs (one is a ...

Pros: Ben is kind of witty, more zigzags than gags.
Cons: Stereotypical female character, a few totally unbelievable moments

Fever Pitch is kind of an iffy venture. Whilst it clings to the tried-and-true formula of the all-American romantic comedy, it swings from almost brilliant to macabre and back again like an unforgiving carnival ride. The Farrelly Brothers have ...

Pros: Fallon and Barrymore are great together
Cons: A couple of unfunny scenes

Fever Pitch is a romantic sports comedy based very loosely on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. It stars Jimmy Fallon (Saturday Night Live) and Drew Barrymore and was directed by the Farrelly brothers. I am a huge Nick Hornby fan and have ...

Pros: Barrymore, Fallon
Cons: very simple storyline

I was browsing Blockbuster for a movie, a few months back, that both my mother and I would enjoy and came across Fever Pitch. I’m not always fond of love stories and thought that the movie would be a little boring since it focused on ...

Pros: Attempts to answer some important relationship questions; Fallon and Barrymore
Cons: Too simple to be a great movie.

How far should obsessed sports fans go in their devotion to their favorite team? This is a question many have posed and that no one has a clear answer. Some people have the capacity to limit their consumption of sports if something very important takes ...

Pros: sweet story, good performances, effective direction
Cons: not outrageously funny, has to overcome a nauseating "cute" factor

I believe in miracles - not because the Boston Redsox won the World Series, but because I actually sat through Fever Pitch and liked it. When they're good, romantic comedies are magic; when they're not, they're a prison sentence. Fever Pitch was ...

Pros: Scenes at Fenway, a few funny scenes, Barrymore looks good with darker hair
Cons: Not that funny, plodding pace at times, repeated showings of the "Buckner play."

When deciding to see a movie this weekend my wife suggested we go see Fever Pitch, I was a bit hesitant. The more I thought about it though, the more I wanted to see those Red Sox postseason highlights one more time. I'd seen the press about the ...

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Having recently rewatched both About a Boy and High Fidelity, I'm reasonably sure that the latter is my all-time favorite film adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel. And having recently rewatched both There's Something About Mary and ...

Pros: funnier than expected, Fallon, decent romantic comedy
Cons: rather unbelievable, drags in some parts

I was bored yesterday. Not that this is big news, after all, I'm bored a lot of the time. How else to explain all the damn writing I do? Anyways, my mood was a bit off yesterday as well. You see, my original plan was to go see Sin City again ...

Pros: Jimmy Fallon, the baseball stuff
Cons: Drew Barrymore, the stuff that isn't baseball

The opening scene of Damn Yankees showcases a suburban wife bemoaning how her sweet attentive husband turns into an absentee spouse wholly focused on fielding percentage, stealing bases, and beating those damn Yankees for six months out of every ...

Pros: Cast, charisma between Fallon and Barrymore. Good pacing and editing.
Cons: Some will still not understand the film.

In most cases a romantic comedy can veer into two distinct directions, it can veer off into the "chick-flick" route (like "Miss Congeniality") or can veer off into the goofy yet pliable world that men can enjoy (Like "Shallow Hal"). A ...

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Nick Hornby has the sort of success the likes of which most people can only dream. A wildly successful writer, with three of his works converted to movies -- one of them twice. And he isn't yet 50. His writing, at least his books, share a common ...

Pros: heartwarming story; humorously captures Sox fandom; Tessie!
Cons: laughs take a while to roll in

For 86 years, being a fan of the Boston Red Sox involved heartbreak, loyalty, and hopeless romanticism. Finally, the Farrelly Brothers have taken those lovable and laughable traits and translated them into a romantic comedy setting. As a Sox fan, my ...

Pros: good acting, great ballpark scenes, cameo appearances, feel-good moments
Cons: some juvenile humor, inappropriate conversation between children and adult

I am not a big fan of movies wrapped with a sports theme. There have been some good ones, though, so I gave Fever Pitch a toss in the DVD player. Who would have thought that romance and baseball could be combined. Basic Plot Synopsis ...