Taglines: A Comedy About The Game Of Love.
Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon star in Fever Pitch, a contemporary romantic comedy about a successful woman who thinks she’s finally met the perfect guy. Everything seems ideal until baseball season begins, and she has to compete with his first true love: the Boston Red Sox. It’s a love triangle – but with a twist. Instead of revolving around three people, story involves twenty-eight: a man, a woman…and a Major League baseball team.
High-school teacher Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon) is a good catch. He’s charming, funny and great with kids. When he meets Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore), an ambitious business consultant whose spirit is as luminous as her beauty, their attraction is immediate. Sure, they have their differences. She’s a workaholic; he loves his summers off. He lives and breathes the Red Sox; she doesn’t know Carl Yastrzemski from Johnny Damon.
But true love overcomes all… at least until Red Sox spring training rolls around. As Ben’s beloved Bosox launch one of the most incredible seasons in baseball history, Ben and Lindsey must decide if they, as a couple, will strike out or fight to keep love alive through extra innings.
FEVER PITCH is based on Nick Hornby’s autobiographical book Fever Pitch, which recounted the author’s obsession with English football (better known to Americans as soccer). But instead of “Americanizing” Hornby’s work, screenwriters Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel took his premise of an obsessive sports fan, and fashioned a contemporary romantic comedy in the classic tradition.
Fever Pitch (released as The Perfect Catch outside the United States and Canada) is a 2005 romantic comedy film. It is directed by the Farrelly brothers, and stars Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. It is a remake of the 1997 British film of the same name, 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[2] and was an executive producer for the American remake.[3]
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 real-life 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.
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Fever Pitch (2005)
Directed by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Clarke, Jack Kehler, Marisa Jaret Winokur, KaDee Strickland, Maureen Keiller, Ione Skye, Isabella Fink, Brett Murphy, Brandon Craggs
Screenplay by: Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
Production Design by: Maher Ahmad
Cinematography by: Matthew F. Leonetti
Film Editing by: Alan Baumgarten
Costume Design by: Sophie De Rakoff
Set Decoration by: Jaro Dick
Art Direction by: Brandt Gordon
Music by: Craig Armstrong
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor and some sensuality.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: April 8, 2005
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