Fever Pitch (1985)
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0% of critics liked it
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29% of users liked it
(90 ratings)
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… 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
- Directed By
- Richard Brooks I
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- 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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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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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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Cast
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Ryan O'Neal
as Taggart
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Catherine Hicks
as Flo
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Giancarlo Giannini
as Charley
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Chad Everett
as Dutchman
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John Saxon
as Sports editor
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Hank Greenspun
as Las Vegas Sun Publisher
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William Smith
as Panama Hat
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Keith Hefner
as Sweeney
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Bridgette Andersen
as Amy
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Selma Archerd
as Sister Theresa
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Timothy Blake
as Babs
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Rafael Campos
as Rafael
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Bill Caplan
as Poker Player
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Lonny Chin
as Miss Casablanca
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Steve Danton
as Towel Boy
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Bobby Jacoby
as Gam-A-Teen Boy
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Allan Malamud
as Reporter
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Tony March
as Bodyguard
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Chad McQueen
as Prisoner
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Cherie Michan
as Rose O'Sharon
- Gary Pagett
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William Prince
as Mitchell
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Tom Schanley
as Scanlon
- Timothy Scott
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Johnny Sekka
as Chocolate
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Pearl Shear
as Mrs. Applebaum
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Heidi Sorenson
as Airport Attendant
- Mark Mitchell
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Jeff Silverman
as Working Press
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Mel Albert
as Working Press
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Jose Aldana
as Working Press
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Mary Asta
as Hitchhiker
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Benita Bellamy
as Exotic Dancer
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D.P. Bentley
as High Roller
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Bud Beyrooty
as Working Press
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Stu Black
as Bodyguard
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Alan Buchdahl
as Track Announcer
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Steven Clow
as Working Press
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Rita Cox
as Working Press
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Carol Crotta
as Working Press
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Bob Keisser
as Working Press
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Tim Liotta
as Working Press
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Robert Lutz
as Working Press
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Len Miller
as Working Press
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Kevin Modesti
as Working Press
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Jim Murray
as Working Press
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Fred Robledo
as Working Press
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Leonard Sacks
as Bet-Taker
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Sid Sakowicz
as Poker Player
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William Schorr
as Working Press
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Diane Shah
as Working Press
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Jimmie Spades
as Security
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Rich Tosches
as Working Press
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Bill Willard
as Casino Guard
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Scott A. Zamost
as Working Press
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Joseph E. Bernard
as Bernstein
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Patrick Cassidy
as Soldier
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John Kirby
as Bet-Taker
