Fever Pitch (2005)
Directed by Bobby Farrelly
Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox.
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That may be partly because the Farrellys didn't write "Fever Pitch": The script, inspired by Nick Hornby's 1992 memoir, is by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, who specialize in sleek products like "Splash," "A League of Their Own" and "City Slickers."
The "man reluctant to grow up" concept has been dealt with before and infinitely better in movie adaptations of Hornby's other novels "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy." Ben sleeps on Red Sox sheets, washes with Red Sox towels, and wipes with Red Sox toilet paper, but screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("A League of Their Own," "City Slickers") ignore all of the character's internal thoughts and concentrate too hard on hitting all the typical signposts of a romantic comedy, leaving out the very thing that makes a good one stand out: personality.
Hit-and-miss screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("Father's Day," "A League of Their Own") do many things right in this lose adaptation of an autobiographical book about soccer fandom by Englishman Nick Hornsby ("High Fidelity").
The results would be something akin to 1989's lovely "Say Anything" or 2005's adorable, underrated " Fever Pitch ."