Fever Pitch, released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a Farrelly Brothers comedy film, a remake of a 1997 British film and loosely based on the Nick Hornby book Fever Pitch (while the book and 1997 film are about Football (soccer), this version is about baseball). The film opened in theaters on April 8, 2005. Fever Pitch stars Jimmy Fallon as Ben Wrightman, a 30-year-old schoolteacher and life-long Red Sox fan courting Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore) during the course of the 2004 Major League Baseball season. Meeks, a baseball neophyte, cannot understand Wrightman's obsession with the team; Wrightman, meanwhile, gears up for the postseason while reconciling his conflicting interests: love and sports. |