Fever Pitch (1985)
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Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of compulsive gambling in Las Vegas. Ryan O'Neal stars as Taggart, a sports reporter obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into debt, he compounds his problems… More Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of compulsive gambling in Las Vegas. Ryan O'Neal stars as Taggart, a sports reporter obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into debt, he compounds his problems with assorted loansharks and gambling operators. Taggart has already lost his wife because of his compulsive gambling, but he takes up with big-timer Charley (Giancarlo Giannini), hoping to make a killing and settle the score. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Rating, Runtime
- R, 1 hr. 35 min.
- Directed By
- Richard Brooks I
- Genres
- Drama
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 1985 Wide
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Unfortunately, plot is a totally unconvincing jumble and Ryan O'Neal as a sports reporter hooked on the gambling game is wooden and unsympathetic.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The opening segments of the movie are simply odd, distracting and unconvincing. It's the movie's final act that is sick.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
You could live a long time and never see anything as awful as Fever Pitch.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
It waffles constantly, and we never know if the creators are for or against gambling.
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Trevor Johnston, Time Out
An old-fashioned and numbingly predicable problem pic of the kind that he used to do rather better.
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Cast
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Ryan O'Nealas Taggart -
Catherine Hicksas Flo -
Giancarlo Gianninias Charley
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Chad Everettas Dutchman -
John Saxonas Sports editor -
Hank Greenspunas Las Vegas Sun Publisher
