Fever Pitch (2005) on Netflix
PG-1320051h 44mComedyDramaRomance
Ben Wrightman, a Boston schoolteacher, holds Red Sox season tickets and has followed the team since childhood. He meets Lindsey Meeks, a corporate executive who knows little about baseball.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.3/1050,381 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes65%
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Plot summary
Ben Wrightman was seven when his uncle Carl first took him to Fenway Park, and he has been a Red Sox fan ever since; the season tickets Carl left him are his now. Almost everything he owns carries the team's logo, except his toilet paper, which bears the Yankees logo. On a school trip he meets Lindsey Meeks, a corporate executive, and she begins going to games with him even though she knows little about baseball. Ben's stadium friends, among them Al Waterman, a sponge salesman, explain the Curse of the Bambino to her. Lindsey is up for a promotion at work, and she takes her laptop to the ballpark to type through the innings.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fever Pitch (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The original plot had assumed the Red Sox would lose in the playoffs, but the team won four straight games to take the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, becoming the first MLB team to overcome a 3-0 series deficit, then beat the St. Louis Cardinals to break the "Curse of the Bambino".
- On the day of Game 4, the Farrellys brought Barrymore, Fallon and a film crew to St. Louis, and when the Red Sox secured the 4-0 win over the Cardinals that broke the Curse, Fox cameras on the live broadcast caught the two actors, in character, running onto the field and kissing.
- Shawn Levy was originally attached to direct with Gwyneth Paltrow playing Lindsey, but she found the script mediocre and turned the role down; after Levy's replacement Brian Robbins quit too, Jay Russell, P. J. Hogan, Luke Greenfield and Mira Nair were rumored before the Farrelly brothers were hired.
- While both the book and the original 1997 film are about association football, the 2005 adaptation was aimed specifically at the American market and is about baseball instead.
