Fever Pitch

Starring:Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon
Directed by:Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
*** Stars
Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch is an easily lovable and enjoyable movie. It shows the love, support, and the devastation and horror of being a true Boston Red Sox fan.
First, we meet Ben Wrightman, a man who sums up his life in this order, Red Sox, Sex, and Breathing. So you know there's bound to be controversy when he meets Lindsay Meeks, successful and attractive and on the brink of her career. But he meets him in the winter. This winter guy will take care of her when she’s sick and will do anything for her. But right when the season starts he turns into something more than just a fan, it's an obsession.

You get the idea of what happens. There's fights and depression during the season because of the struggles with the Sox and Lindsay and Ben. Instead of going to a romantic trip to Paris with Lindsay, Ben decides to stay and watch the games and this escalades into the big conflict.
The ending is obvious. The Sox win...finally. After 86 years, the heartbreak, depression, embarrassment, and catastrophes of the Boston Red Sox end. The curse of the bambino is over (The curse goes back to the beginning of the 1919 season where the owner of the Red Sox traded the best player in baseball Babe Ruth, to build a musical theater).

The film is also perfectly cast. Fallon doesn't over do it. He gives a solid performance and perfectly captures what it's like to be a sox fan. Barrymore also stands tall. She doesn't try to be the heart of the film because that's Fallon's job. She plays her part with perfect emotion.

The movie has humor when it needs humor, there's romance when it needs romance, and there's Red Sox when it needs it. The Farrelly brothers give a perfect balance of baseball and romance and I loved every minute of it.