Fever Pitch (Good)
It’s tough to categorize this movie. It’s not a sports film, since the Red Sox are only shown in brief clips here and there. It’s not a drama, really, or a romantic comedy. It’s somewhere in between. And in between is a light-yet-serious movie about a guy and a girl who just try to make it work. The hook is that the guy is a die-hard Red Sox fan - you know, the kind that go to Florida to watch all of their spring training games. You’ d think that this would make for some awkward situational comedy, but except for a few scenes, its actually treated intelligently rather than portraying the guy as some mutant who can’t fit into the real world and the girl as the beauty who must rescue the beast. I really appreciated this movie for that. Drew Barrymore was okay, but Jimmy Fallon’s character came across as heartfelt and sincere, and not even in the well-acted sense. You just felt for the guy. Overall, the film made me smile and reflect and often both. I liked it because it showed that compromise is important for both sides of a relationship, and that love is both wonderful and tough. You know, there’s no free ride when it comes to matters of the heart, and anyone who tells you different is lying or has never had a relationship for more than a year. In the end, this movie didn’t do anything really wrong, but I can’t give it a higher mark because there just wasn’t anything in it that grabbed me. It was “nice;” but good-nice.
