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| Dec 12, 2008dvdfuture.com
Fever Pitch is a great movie for baseball fans, for fans of romantic comedies and for fans of Fallon and Barrymore.
Fever Pitch isn't a laugh-out-loud comedy and thus, many Farrelly fans may be disappointed, however, this isn't just another silly little romantic comedy.
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| Sep 04, 2008Urban Cinefile
Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiography, The Perfect Catch is a poor Americanised version of the 1997 film Fever Pitch, for which Hornby wrote the screenplay and which starred Colin Firth.
The characters, like the situations, play out like a phoney game of charades.
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| Sep 04, 2008Urban Cinefile
Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiography, The Perfect Catch is a poor Americanised version of the 1997 film Fever Pitch, for which Hornby wrote the screenplay and which starred Colin Firth.
In his autobiographical novel Fever Pitch, British author Nick Hornby channeled under-used themes of male sporting obsessions into the painfully funny story of an English soccer fan that gradually finds room in his heart for a girlfriend and Arsenal Football Club.
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| Jul 01, 20063 Black Chicks
So Jimmy Fallon has decent acting chops.
Fallon is a charming rom-com lead, and he can do poignant too.
One of the funniest lines to me wasnt a big guffaw moment, but a quieter one.
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| Mar 11, 2006TotalFilm
Plotwise, the London and football of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch has been swapped for Boston and baseball; but the career girl (Drew Barrymore) dating against type by falling for entertaining teacher (Jimmy Fallon) yarn remains.
You'll be equally as impatient with the extras - a flat gag-reel, a blink-and-miss-it alternative ending and a yak-track that, while passionate, ultimately strikes out.
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| Nov 17, 2005associatedcontent.com
Fever Pitch, starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, is a delightful romantic comedy....Unless you despise the Boston Red Sox and baseball, you will love this movie.....Jimmy Fallon is perfect as the Red Sox number one fan.....Drew Barrymore is adorable, as always, in the romantic comedy genre..... ... Full Review
| Sep 14, 2005hoopla.nu
The directing team have been fairly restrained in their latest feature - there's only the faintest whiff of potty humour here.
Having a relatively fresh face in attendance certainly worked in the film's favour, and the two performers bounce off each other wonderfully.
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| Sep 13, 2005DVD Talk
Though this is a very entertaining film
As the film's plot doesn't progress cleanly, jumping around from time frame to time frame, these title cards give the film a faux episodic feel that doesn't lend itself to the story.
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| Sep 13, 2005Cinema Blend
There are funny moments to Fever Pitch , there just arent enough of them to carry the whole film.
The Disc: Despite Fever Pitch s short comings, some of the extras on the disc are actually decent.
I hate that story line.
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| Apr 29, 2005bigpicturebigsound.com
The movie might have been better as a short film.
With "Fever Pitch", a soggy, persistently adequate adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel about a woman who falls in love with a rabid sports fan, the SNL alum fits comfortably into the role of a bland, cuddly leading man.
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