By its title I already had a notion that it’s a sports associated movie. Since nothing good is showing I stuck it out and didn’t change channel. Baseball? Red Sox? I’m not really a baseball aficionado so it doesn’t ring any bells. Then I saw Drew Barrymore, “hey” I told myself “this could be a nice movie”. I loved her 51st dates and wedding singer. She kicked butt in Charlie’s Angel, and who could ever forget how adorable she was in E.T., or how powerful she was in fire starter. Actually, her only movie I really wasn’t crazy about was the one with Del Torro. So let’s get it on.
Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 is a romantic comedy. It is a remake of a 1997 British film. Both films are based on a book by Nick Hornby. While both the book and the original 1997 film are about soccer, this version is about baseball. This film features the dramatic or unexpected sporting victory of the Boston Red Sox's 2004 World Series.
It’s a love story most of us can relay to. Remember falling in love with that guy who loves “sports”. Well this movie is all about that. It’s about how we girls try to learn and understand the game so that we can “connect” with the man in our life. How we would go and watch, cheer our lungs out, celebrate and mourn these games. How we try to empathize with our guys. Then comes the conflict in our story. It’s when you lose yourself in trying to complement the one you love, and you hate it. Separation subsequently follows and hearts get broken.
The conclusion of this film was rather spectacular with Drew Barrymore running across the baseball field being chased by security men in the middle of a game just to stop her beau from selling all his seats of the Red Sox games for $125,000. She wouldn’t have him give up something he loved for 23 years just because of her, talk about Selfless Love! Well he on the other hand would give everything up for her – a stalemate. All in all it was a nice movie cause it ended with a compromise from both parties, and they all lived happily ever after with the Red Sox winning despite being the underdog for so-so time.
