Fever Pitch (2005)
7/10
More of a solid double than a grand-slam of a rom-com; nice chemistry between Barrymore & Fallon
11 April 2005
FEVER PITCH (2005) *** Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jack Kehler, Ione Skye, KaDee Strickland, Marissa Jaret Winokur, James Sikking, JoBeth Williams, Lenny Clarke, Siobhan Fallon. Reasonably funny romantic comedy with Fallon and Barrymore falling in love with each other and dealing with Fallon's obsessive fanaticism with the Boston Red Sox that proves to be at times taxing and calls into question what true love really is – sacrifices for one another. Based on Nick Hornby's best-seller (his soccer freak fan is transplanted for obvious reasons by vet screen writing team Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz) and a near-perfect fit for funmeister filmmakers Peter & Bobby Farrelly who eschew most of their gross-out humor for a valentine to the desperate cursed life of a Boston fan with a fairy-tale only-in-truth-being-stranger-than-fiction end results (the World Series win by the BoSox sent the original ending into a tailspin). Barrymore and Fallon's loosey-goosey chemistry is often on the mark but the Farrelly's are thisclose to being in Garry Marshall rom-com territory.
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