Fever Pitch (Full Screen Edition) | 
| Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Actors: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Spevack, Jack Kehler, Scott Severance
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 16972
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2557
UPC: 024543198536
EAN: 0024543198536
ASIN: B000A0GXRE
Theatrical Release Date: April 8, 2005
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.
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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon
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 PITCH THIS ONE OUT! April 30, 2009
Audrey J. Seman (Copper Center,, AK United States)
I have enjoyed Drew Barrymore, especially in EVER AFTER. I was looking for a video that had character building traits so I could share it with the children I work with. I was so disappointed in the the DVD that I literally pitched it!
 A Movie about All the Great Things of Boston...The Red Sox, Young Professionals and Students and Truly Believing !! March 22, 2009
J. Blais (MA, USA)
Great Movie about Truly Believing in Something that is Totallty Out of Your Control....Through It All. The Legacy of the Red Sox and the Curse. Oh Yeah..The Main Plot of the Movie is Great Too. Buy It...Rent It...Download....Well Worth It !!
3 stars out of 4 December 21, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
Though the film admittedly works a lot better if the viewer is a baseball fan or at least knows a lot about the game, Fever Pitch is nonetheless recommended for its suprisingly good performance by Jimmy Fallon, warm romance and consistently amusing comedy.
I'm a Yankees fan, but that's okay August 18, 2008
Emily Taylor (Northern Utah)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first time I saw this movie, my college roommate and I had rented this movie. We popped in the movie, watched it, then promptly started it over again. Tragically, I later lost the copy I purchased and had to resort to good ol' Amazon.com.
Anywho, this is truly one delightful movie and I happily consider it one of my favorite romantic comedies. "Fever Pitch" is sweet, funny, and packs a pretty darn good message about relationships and priorities. Fallon and Barrymore have wonderful chemistry. The story balances detailed side characters without going overboard. In fact, all the characters are properly quirky. The film flows well with plenty of romance and laughs, and who can resist that overall devotion to the spirit of baseball?
Though at times I am one of those geeks that has to have every little detail on the DVD, I'm quite happy with the bare essentials this has--including a trailor and various documentaries. It's all done very well and kept in the same spirit of the movie itself.
This is a handy little DVD, and the movie should appeal to baseball fanatics and hopeless romantics alike.
Yankee fan likes a Red Sox movie? July 19, 2008
Michael R. Chernick (Holland PA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am a true Yankee fan and although the Red Sox are now our biggest rivals I still enjoyed this movie. I had to close my eyes at the end for a few seconds when they showed the Red Sox comeback in the AL Championship series.
Because the Red Sox our biggest American League rival people think it was always that way. But it wasn't. When I grew up in the 1950s the Red Sox had great hitters like Ted Williams and Pete Runnels. But they were never a contender. The Yankees rivals were the Indians and White Sox, the only two teams to beat them out for the American League pennant. But those rivalries were nothing compared to the Brooklyn Dodger vs New York Yankee rivarly that develop when they meet in the World Series 4 times in the decade.
In this movie Jimmy Fallon meets Drew Barrymore and falls in love with her. But this happens in the winter and the true Red Sox fanaticism doesn't really come until baseball season. She gets a hint when she see how his apartment looks like Fenway Park. But the true understanding doesn't hit until she see him with friends on ESPN while they were down in Florida watching for the new prospects.
The theme of the story is all about her finding time for a man in her life and we see how this very succesful woman is embarrassed when she is caught sleeping on the job. For Fallon it is about finding time for her with his busy schedule attendiing Red Sox games. He inherited two season tickets and before the season starts he and his friends get to decide who gets to go with him for these games. With Drew in his life he picks her to go with him to the most important games. One day he had to miss a game for a dinner appointment with her parents.
The last straw seems to be when he hesitates about taking a trip with her to Paris because the Sox would be in town. In the end he is depressed and decides to sell his tickets and show her that he would give up the Red Sox for her. If you go see it watch how it plays out. It is very funny and romantic.
For me the most interesting part was that it was filmed during the 2004 season and so as they filmed the outcome was in doubt because it hinged on how the Red Sox would do. The soap opera story of the Red Sox being humiliated in game 3 of the AL Championship Series, then being down with no wins and three losses even their die hard fans were throwing in the towel. After all no team in the history of the playoffs and World series had ever comeback down 3-0 to win a 7 game series. But in Hollywood fashion they did. That gave them the impetus to reverse thecurse and sweeo the Cardinals in the World Series. Fallon and Barrymore actually attended some of the games and were filmed there.
This film is good for men and women. Men love it for the baseball and an undersanding of how serious fans can be about their team. Women love it for the romance, a real chick flick.
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