Review of Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (1997)
7/10
World evolves around a football
16 December 2003
First - don't be fooled by the stupid cover of the video, which doesn't really help to give this film some credibility. Someone was asking in his/her comment why this film did not get a bigger release here in the US, well look on how popular "soccer" is, it's still treated as a stepchild in the US sports world and to be honest I'm not too much into the MLS myself. I'd rather see an English or German game on FSW (Fox Sports World). All this said I have to clarify that fanatics can occur in every sports - what about all you Saints fans that are still hoping that New Orleans Eleven will one day win the big one. I'm not gonna repeat the story line as it is documented many times in these comments. I think the script is utterly funny, I actually checked if some of the good lines in the movie made the quotes' site on IMDB. Checkout the "smoking / stay over night" quote, which took me so off guard that I immediately wrote it down, specially coming from the "iron britches" lady.

At the end when Sarah Hughes (Ruth Gemmell) is wearing the red/white polka dot dress (Arsenal colors), we already know the end of the movie, but it doesn't spoil it all. A sports movie that women may dig as well. (7/10)
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