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Fever Pitch is a film of genre Drama directed by Frères Farrelly released in USA on 6 april 2005 with Drew Barrymore
Fever Pitch (2005)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 6 april 2005
Length 1h43
Rating61%
Fever Pitch (released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada) is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. It is a remake of the eponymous 1997 British film, which was loosely based on Nick Hornby's best-selling memoir, Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life (1992). Hornby wrote the screenplay for the original film and was an executive producer (but not a writer) for the American remake.
While both the book and the original 1997 film are about association football, the 2005 adaptation, aimed at the U.S. market, is about baseball. Both Fever Pitch films feature dramatic or unexpected sporting victories, the original focusing on Arsenal's last minute League title win in 1989, and the remake on the Boston Red Sox's 2004 World Series Championship.
Synopsis
Ben Wrightman, a 7-year-old boy, is going to a Red Sox game with his Uncle Carl. His uncle, who had not children of his own, treated Ben like a son. A narration explains that on that day, Ben became a die-hard Red Sox fan. Just about everything he owns bears the Red Sox name, emblem, or image of a Red Sox player (with the exception of his toilet paper, which bears the New York Yankees insignia). Ben inherited his uncle's season tickets when Carl died. The story picks up 23 years later with Ben (Jimmy Fallon) as a school teacher who is immature for his age. He meets Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore), a professionally successful workaholic executive. When Ben first asks her out, Lindsey rejects him, but she later changes her mind and agrees to go out with him.Actors
Drew Barrymore
(Lindsey Meeks)
JoBeth Williams
(Maureen Meeks)
Jimmy Fallon
(Ben Wrightman)
KaDee Strickland-Behr
(Robin)
Jason Spevack
(Ben - 1980)
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