Fever Pitch (2005)

Comedy, Drama, Romance /
6.2/10
56/100
65% – Critics
60% – Audience

Fever Pitch Storyline

According to Boston Red Sox super fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is just as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But then Ben meets Lyndsey Meeks, and suddenly anything’s possible. Well… until Spring Training begins, and Lindsey sees Ben on ESPN in Florida acting like an idiot. But these games don’t count, and she knows that there may be trouble once the first pitch is thrown. But she seems fine about it, because as she competes for a promotion, she says Ben won’t be affected by her at work all the time. But things really get out of hand when Lyndsey gets hit by a line drive foul ball off of Baltimore Orioles’ Miguel Tejada, and the Sox begin to loose. The relationship picks up, but when Lyndsey gives Ben the opportunity to go to Paris with her, he turns it down, because Seattle’s rolling in and the Sox are 3 1/2 games behind New York and Ben says that they need him. Later, the Red Sox are in the ALCS against New York, and fall behind three games to none. Then, Ben decides to sell his Red Sox tickets to make Lyndsey happy and say that he loves her. She’s at Game 4, and Lindsey has to find a way to get him to stop selling his tickets, and can the Sox finally win it all?

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Fever Pitch Movie Reviews

Sweet and Charming Date Movie

“Fever Pitch” is a sweet and charming addition to the small genre of sports romances as date movies or movies a son could be willing to go to with his mother (though the guys in the audience got noticeably restless during the romantic scenes).

I have lived through a milder version of such a story, as my first exposure to baseball was dating my husband the spring after the Mets first World Series win and then I watched the Mets clinch their next one because I was the one still up in the wee hours with our two little sons, who have grown up to teach me more about baseball through our local neighborhood National League team’s other heartbreaking failures to win it again (and it was me who took our older son to his only Fenway Park game as I caught a bit of Red Sox fever as a graduate student in Boston).

So compared to reality, the script believably creates two people with actual jobs. It is particularly impressive that Drew Barrymore’s character is a substantive workaholic who has anti-Barbie skills, though she pretty much only visits with her three bland girlfriends during gym workouts that allow for much jiggling and the minor side stories with her parents don’t completely work.

It is even set up credibly how she meets Jimmy Fallon’s math teacher and how she falls for his “winter guy” — though it’s surprising that his Red Sox paraphernalia filled apartment didn’t tip her off to his Jekyll-and-Hyde “summer guy.” Their relationship crisis during the baseball season is also played out in a refreshingly grown-up way, from efforts at compromise to her frank challenges to him, centered around that they are both facing thirty and single. Fallon surprisingly rises to his character’s gradual emotional maturity.

While the ending borrows heavily from O. Henry, the script writers did a yeoman job of quickly incorporating the Sox’s incredible 2004 season into a revised story line (with lots of cooperation from the Red Sox organization for filming at the stadium).

The script goes out of its way to explain why Fallon doesn’t have a Boston accent, as an immigrant from New Jersey, but that doesn’t explain why his motley friends don’t. The most authentic sounding Boston sounds come from most of his “summer family” of other season ticket holders, who kindly kibitz the basics of Sox lore to neophyte Barrymore (and any such audience members).

The song selection includes many Red Sox fans’ favorites, from the opening notes of the classic “Dirty Water,” though most are held to be heard over the closing credits as if you are listening to local radio and are worth sitting through to hear.

Take me out to the ball game!

The Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, are at it again. With “Fever Pitch” the creators of other films that have dealt with a lot of gross themes, abandon that tactic when they decided to bring Nick Hornby’s film to the screen, something that it would have been hard to do. The novel, of the same title, dealt with a man’s obsession with soccer, since it is set in England, where that sport consumes most of British sports fans. It’s to the credit of the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell, to transform the book into a language that would appeal to most Americans, when they make their hero, a Boston Red Sox fan.

“Fever Pitch” is a film that presents an obsessive fan, Ben Wrightly, whose life revolves into the Red Sox season, and who is an eighth grade teacher with uncanny ways for involving his students into the subject he tries to teach them. When Ben takes four of his best pupils for a tour of a local firm, he meets, and falls hopelessly in love with the brainy Lindsey Meeks, a young woman who is going places, but at thirty, has no life of her own.

The story follows the two lovers through the ritual of attending the Red Sox, at home games, in Fenway Park. This team’s fans are probably the most loyal people in the world, having stuck with a team that does marvelous things but, until 2004, never won a World Series. In fact, the ending, from what we heard, had to be changed because that was the year in which they finally won the event that had eluded them for eighty six years! Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon are perfect as the couple at the center of the film. Ms. Barrymore is a natural who always surprises in her appearances in front of the camera. Jimmy Fallon, a popular television comedian, turned movie actor, has a better opportunity here than in his last appearance in “Taxi”, in our humble opinion.

The Farrelly brothers film will satisfy their fans as well as baseball fans with this baseball tale.

My Heart’s in Fenway Park

Baseball and romance, that’s what Fever Pitch is all about. The romance comes when advertising executive Drew Barrymore discovers that she has to share her boyfriend Jimmy Fallon with the whole team of the Boston Red Sox. Loving the Red Sox amounts to an obsession with Fallon, he has season tickets inherited from his late uncle who taught him love the Crimson Hose and prepare for a life of disappointment.

Fever Pitch is based on a British comedy of the same name where a man’s obsession with his favorite soccer team threatens to ruin his love life. Not knowing a thing about British soccer I can’t really comment and I’d miss a lot of the nuances. But every baseball fans knows the bitter trail of disappointment and the legendary curse of the Bambino that started when Babe Ruth was sold to the New York Yankess starting their dominance of the sport and insuring the Red Sox to also ran status. 86 years of not having a World Series winner in Boston makes one an eternal pessimist. You have to love a team to stick with them and I remember there were people interviewed in Boston in 2004 who were still alive when the Red Sox had last won a World Series 1918.

Just as the Red Sox reversed the curse and became world champions so to did Barrymore and Fallon overcame a lot of obstacles to see their dream of love come true. You have to have a heart of stone not to appreciate Fever Pitch.

In 2005 a longer curse of 88 years also ended as the Chicago White Sox brought home a World Series title to that city. No time apparently to do a story about them. But their north town National League rivals the Cubs have an even longer drought. Their last World Series win was in 1908 and the Cubs were last in a World Series in 1945. I hope someone is out there working on a screenplay for a Chicago version of Fever Pitch.

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