Fever Pitch

Here we have a pleasant surprise. Loosely based on a Nick Hornby novel about his obsession with soccer, FEVER PITCH was wrongly promoted as a romantic comedy and it's a shame because the film has two good legs to stand on. Jimmy Fallon plays a die hard Boston Red Sox fan and the story follows the difficulty he has maintaining a relationship with Drew Barrymore. It's a nice touching bit of fluff and perfect for a date movie as it manages to be both a baseball and a chick flick. I was there when they were shooting some crowd scenes during a Blue Jays game at the Skydome and poor Drew tried to throw out the opening pitch and could barely make home plate. Speaking of opening pitches, Stephen King is shown throwing the opening pitch in a game of which the Red Sox lost snapping a ten game winning streak. Poor Stephen was blamed for it by the New England media the next day! My man John Olerud is shown briefly and the now hated in Boston Johnny Damon has a hilarious cameo.