Fever Pitch (2005 film)

A man for one season ( Fever Pitch) is an American comedy film directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly in the year 2005. The story is adapted from the novel Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby.

Action

The story begins in 1980. Ben Wrightman is brought up by his uncle Carl, who is a fan of the baseball team Boston Red Sox. When Uncle Carl dies, Ben looks at the team as his surrogate family. The uncle willed him also two very valuable season tickets right behind the dugout, the team bench, the Red Sox.

The 2003 30 -year-old Ben Wrightman works as a teacher and continues to be a fan of the Boston Red Sox. He learns during a class trip, the businesswoman Lindsey Meeks know. His disciples say to him then that the woman is "hot" and that he should arrange to meet with her. He tries to do this, but Lindsay refuses an appointment initially from. Later she agrees but when her friends Robin and Sarah to persuade them.

After an initial great time together, however, begins the season of the Red Sox. For this reason - Ben goes with his friends for years to the " unimportant " pre-season games to Florida - he says from a first meeting with the parents of Lindsey. You see on TV completely crazy and wacky fans - including, of course, Ben, and the father responded with negative comments about the " fans". In the following years it is clear that Ben lives only for the sport. Thus, the delivery of inherited season tickets is for celebration; Tickets for a game against the archrival New York Yankees, there is only the one who dances the best.

The Lindsey known as a workaholic shares a passion for baseball Ben's not, so that the relationship between the two is raised repeatedly on a hard test. She knows nothing of the Curse of the Bambino and can not correctly pronounce the name of the Red Sox legend Yastrzemski. She also takes a laptop into the stadium to work from there, which Ben does not fit. In this game, Lindsay is hit by a foul ball and is then no longer with the games. The height of the crisis is reached when Ben cancels the first game for over eleven years, to go with Lindsay to a party. In the evening he called " the most beautiful of his life " until it reaches a call in which it is reported by the " biggest game of the Red Sox ." After an unbelievable comeback, the Red Sox were able to beat the arch-rival New York Yankees, they had a seven - point deficit caught up in the last pass. For Ben world falls apart, and he cursed the until recently great evening, resulting in the separation of the two.

When Ben realizes that there is a life outside of the playing field even for the players of the Red Sox, he decides his season tickets for sale at Robin's husband Chris Lindsey to recover. When Lindsay learns of the pending sale of the season tickets, it runs in a spectacular action during a match on the pitch to Ben to stop him. In this game, is Game 4 of the AL Championsship series the Red Sox against the Yankees; after that the Red Sox won the series 0-3 after victories behind to 4:3. A happy ending in a double sense: Meeks and Wrightman be happy together and the Red Sox win the World Series, the championship of the MLB. For the Red Sox winning the title in 2004 was the first league title in 86 years.

Reviews

James Berardinelli called the film on ReelViews as a " curious mixture " of wisdom and " Schmaltz ". Jimmy Fallon WOULD in the movie "unbearable" ( " insufferable "). The characters of the friends of the main characters are not sufficiently developed. Berardinelli criticized in his opinion unrealistic end.

The lexicon of the International film said, " tried by convincing actors worn, subtly developed comedy based on a novel by Nick Hornby, represent the fundamentally different perspectives on the relationships between man and woman. "

Awards

The film was nominated in 2005 in seven categories for the Teen Choice Awards, including Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore and Best Picture. Drew Barrymore was nominated for the 2005 IFTA Award.

Background

The film was shot in Boston, St. Louis, Toronto and Niagara Falls (Ontario). His cost of production was estimated at 39.7 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 42.1 million U.S. dollars.

Twice the Dropkick Murphys is played in the movie the song Tessie, which is closely related to the acquired championship by the Red Sox in 2004.

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