Fever Pitch
#30 in my movie challenge for the year was Fever Pitch. (It came into the library with Sky High, a coincidental double feature. Last week’s was The Constant Gardener and Crash, so it was a whiplash change from last week to this.) Like Sky High, it had some good bits, especially about rabid fans, but Barrymore and Fallon aren’t convincing actors. It’s based on Nick Hornby’s book of the same title about his obsession with football (soccer), and there’s a previous English adaptation starring Colin Firth.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Why? Why? Why? Why would the Americans want to make this movie? It is so very English. I adored the Colin Firth version (but just couldn’t get into the book, though I like Nick Hornby v. much).
April 28th, 2006 at 8:58 am
My guess is that the successes of both About a Boy and High Fidelity spurred the Farrelly Brothers to revise the earliest Hornby book. Like High Fidelity, though, I don’t think the adaptation benefited from its Americanization and modernization. Hornby’s stories worked best as snapshots of specific places and times, I thought, and I’m not even English.
April 30th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
it wasn’t a great movie, but some of it was funny.