Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Clarke

A contemporary romantic comedy about a high school teacher who meets and falls in love with a successful businesswoman. Although their lives are vastly different, the relationship seems perfect until ...( read more  read more... )the baseball season begins and she has to compete with his first true love: the Boston Red Sox.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Release Date: April 8, 2005

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DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005

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  • May 28, 2009
    Alright I keep finding movies I've seen a bunch of times but haven't reviewed such as Carpool or Fever Pitch. Jimmy Fallon does pretty well in this lead role. Very cheesy but funny and interesting in certain moments. Drew Barrymore is Drew Barrymore here, some of her lines are...( read more) awful. Farrelly Brothers don't have the fire like they used to in the mid 90's.
  • March 25, 2009
    fallon has no screen presence but this flick is good
  • August 4, 2008
    Having never read or watched the original Fever Pitch meant I could watch this for what it is. Sweet, delightful romantic comedy that is very funny. Both leads are highly likeable and it is easy to see where each one is coming from. Not being a sports fan though did mean Fallon s...( read more)ometimes rubbed me up the wrong way. The predictability also means the film can't be considered that great and coming from The Farrelly Brothers it's nice to see a not so twisted comedy, although that may have livened it up just a tad.
  • July 10, 2008
    This was such a silly little movie, but I knew that when I went to see it.
  • May 24, 2008
    This is cute fun lovable comedy. I personally thought Fallon and Barrymore had a really good connection and they made this movie work. Im a sucker for romance though.
  • October 29, 2009
    Not bad at all.Kinda enjoyable
  • October 14, 2009
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  • September 23, 2009
    Oh Drew Barrymore and her romantic comedies, when will she ever take a different role again?
    I did not have high expectations on this one. For a start I'm not a bit interested in baseball. But for Drew's sake I gave it a chance. And I was not disappointed. In fact ...( read more)this is one of the better romantic comedies I've seen.
  • September 15, 2009
    Y'know these mainstreem romantic comedy american antics films about youth at an older age, explained in that 'feature length, subliminal way'. Well this was it for me.

    No big infatuation with the everyday stars in it though as i`ve been a guy as a young age child teacher and...( read more) a camp group leader of children, all after the ripe old age of 23 - big kid/small adult right then, I can feel the way the Uncle made an immpression on him with the game of baseball... and growing up as a 'bright' person in more ways than one, in particular. It was easy to see the way the wild-ish, busy corperate executive, high maintenance Drew Barrimore`s character was taken with him, drawn into his world to see, and thus falling in love-oooh!. Applause now-yuk!!

    there was some referrence to 2010 by fasion that has come around or forseen as season here and now-(yep very similar) from 2003 at his movies conception/release allowing me to bestow a recommendation to all and all who like just another flick like this, from a mature point of view ? if you can stand the ? Yuk! that is.

    It may ring true to those that allow it to get to their feelings.
    Guy film a bit...enjoy
  • September 12, 2009
    SO GOOD laughly and the red sox won for real men

Critic Reviews


May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

An amusing and affecting ode to professional sports fandom. full review

April 11, 2005
Kurt Loder, MTV

[A] near-perfect romantic comedy, and the elegance with which it's been constructed is a beautiful thing to behold. full review

April 8, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The Farrellys, New Englanders by birth, love the Red Sox so much that they forgive their lead character a multitude of sins that, in any of their other movies, they'd be too gentlemanly (and too human... full review

April 8, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A romantic comedy that flirts with something serious but never gets past the flirting stage. full review

April 8, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate

Fallon is rather good, too, by the way -- his self-effacement here becomes him. full review

April 8, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

The screenplay, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, struggles to make up for a fundamental lack of suspense. full review

April 8, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed. full review

April 8, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Do not make the mistake of thinking it is a baseball movie. It is a movie about how men and women, filled with love and motivated by the best will in the world, simply do not speak the same emotional ... full review

April 7, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

At times, it works brilliantly, bringing the fanatic (and mostly male) world of baseball geekdom into collision with the planet where women strive for career success and true love, usually with painfu... full review

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