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Fever Pitch
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United Kingdom · 1997
Rated R · 1h 42m
Director David Evans
Starring Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Mark Strong, Holly Aird
Genre Comedy, Romance
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Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, English teacher Paul Ashworth meets Sarah, the woman of his dreams. But one thing stands in their way: Paul's long standing obsession with Arsenal. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
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What are critics saying?
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
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.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Vastly superior to the small and independent films that have come out during the last six months.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
This frantic tale seems at once preachy and incoherent, collapsing into a more or less random collection of disconnected, unfocused scenes.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
It's an amiable enough picture, and genuinely insightful about the emotional appeal of devoted fandom.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.
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