SummaryPaul, and English teacher who is obsessed with English football -- specifically the perennial championship-less Arsenal-- enters into a roller-coaster romance with Sarah who, in the end, is forced to appreciate the virtues of the sport.
Directed By:David Evans
Written By:Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
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Mixed or Average
55
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
55
38% Positive
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1 Review
88
A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
88
Vastly superior to the small and independent films that have come out during the last six months.
70
If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
50
The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.
50
It's an amiable enough picture, and genuinely insightful about the emotional appeal of devoted fandom.
40
This frantic tale seems at once preachy and incoherent, collapsing into a more or less random collection of disconnected, unfocused scenes.
30
The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
63% Positive
12 Ratings
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Jan 24, 2021
8
A movie that long suffering sports fans (particularly Arsenal fans) can relate to.
Funny and highly entertaining.
Feb 21, 2012
1
First let me say that I've seen About A Boy and High Fidelity about 3 times each, so I am a big Hornby fan. However, this movie had nothing going for it. It's a story about a stupid guy (and a woman who was stupid to get involved with him). There's nothing redeeming about it, nothing very funny about it, and it is a *huge* disappointment compared to the two films mentioned above. Don't waste your time. Really.
