Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in the UK. Hornby also wrote the screenplay for the original film, but had no input for the American remake. While both the book and the original 1997 film are ab...
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Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in the UK. Hornby also wrote the screenplay for the original film, but had no input for the American remake. While both the book and the original 1997 film are about Football (soccer), this version, aimed at the US market, is about baseball. The film opened in theaters on April 8, 2005.
The movie begins with Ben Wrightman as a 7 year old going to a Red Sox game with his Uncle Carl. His uncle treated him like a son because he had no kids of his own. The opening narrative explains that ever since that day, Ben became a die-hard Red Sox fan. Just about everything he owns bears the Red Sox name, emblem or the image of a Red Sox player (with the exception of his toilet paper, which bears the New York...
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