Fever Pitch

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Summary: BUY IT! An Enjoyable movie.
Review: Being married to a football "nut", I really enjoyed this movie. My husband & I watched it, and he could see himself in many of the scenes. The movie's football is really soccer, but a real fan is the same anywhere. We had a hard time with some of the English slang, and they talk sort of fast, but it did not deter from the whole thing, afterall we can always "rewind". One other puzzle was, "why do the fans were the color red when the team wears yellow?" We were watching the wrong team at the beginning until we caught on. Colin Firth was great, he is a very good actor, his frustration and love comes through those wonderful eyes of his. Ruth Gemmell was perfect,also. Go ahead and buy Fever Pitch, especially if you are a rabid fan of any sport. If you're not, you must know someone who is...! It's great.

Rating:
Summary: BUY IT! An Enjoyable movie.
Review: Being married to a football "nut", I really enjoyed this movie. My husband & I watched it, and he could see himself in many of the scenes. The movie's football is really soccer, but a real fan is the same anywhere. We had a hard time with some of the English slang, and they talk sort of fast, but it did not deter from the whole thing, afterall we can always "rewind". One other puzzle was, "why do the fans were the color red when the team wears yellow?" We were watching the wrong team at the beginning until we caught on. Colin Firth was great, he is a very good actor, his frustration and love comes through those wonderful eyes of his. Ruth Gemmell was perfect,also. Go ahead and buy Fever Pitch, especially if you are a rabid fan of any sport. If you're not, you must know someone who is...! It's great.

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Summary: Diverting
Review: Colin Firth is wonderful as the completely clueless, but absolutely charming soccer-mad English teacher. Between you and me, that's the only reason for a female to watch this film. Women, if you're bored by all the soccer stuff, think of it as an anthropological study of a subject you'll never understand. The bonus is that you get to study it while observing Firth. The only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is that through most of the movie, I found myself screaming at Paul Ashworth for being so damn stupid. Ruth Gemmell is excellent, but who am I kidding? It's Firth's dimples and curls that make this movie for me. He looks scrumptious enough to eat with a spoon.

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Summary: Great Original Film
Review: Fever Pitch is a story about a teacher who is an obsessed soccer fan. He falls into a relationship with a fellow teacher, who totally cannot relate to his soccer enthusiasm. I enjoyed this film, especially Colin Firth's performance, he is such a versatile actor! No Mr. Darcy here. This flick made me wonder how many other men are such fans of sport that their lives are immersed in it to the inclusion of everything. If you are a football, golf, (name your sport) "widow" this film may help you understand the obsession of it all.

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Summary: Who designs these covers!!!???
Review: Good movie- I agree with most of the reviews. I just want to know
who designs these AWFUL covers like the semi-nude with the shoes.
The British version,and they are not shy, has a funny picture of Ruth Gemmell and Colin Firth on the cover and it's easy to see that it is a romantic comedy involving sports. Do they think that an American will not buy it and it needs to be 'spiced'up? They did the same thing to the movie 'Persuasion' several years ago.

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Summary: More complex than the cover indicates
Review: Honestly, the things that marketing departments will do... the closest this film comes to nudity is a glimpse of Colin Firth's Arsenal boxer shorts. Fever Pitch is a terrific adaptation of Nick Hornby's book (adaptation *by* Nick Hornby, so go figure)... where the book spent time obsessing over the minutiae of Arsenal matches dating back 34 years, the film manages to capture that obsession nicely without subjecting *us* to all those minutes. Instead, Hornby spends his time looking at how such sports obsessions/identifications are born, what they take the place of, and how they change as the obsessers have to confront some of life's non-sports-related oddities (jobs, love, children, etc.). Colin Firth is great, Ruth Gemmell is good (though I find I don't know much about her Sarah by the time the movie is over), and it's a well-done movie. Three and a half stars, by the way, rather than four, but something that sports nuts and those who have to put up with them can enjoy together.

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Summary: Soccer or Colin?
Review: I bought this movie to see Colin Firth. The plot was hard to follow and was mainly about soccer. Frankly, I don't see how the love story developed at all.
But still, I bought this movie to see Colin and I did. So all in all, I give it an average rating. It could be entertaining if you can relate to his fascination with his soccer team.

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Summary: No TITLE
Review: I did not enjoy this movie on the grounds that the characters were unsympathetic and boring. At the end of this film I walked away not caring about the movie or the people in it. The cover of the box said "Romantic Comedy" but the film was neither romantic or funny. Colin Firth plays an emotional ... soccer geek who hooks up with a desperate ... retentive co-worker. No passion. Nothing.

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Summary: Thoroughly Stupid
Review: I found this movie very disappointing, considering the talent involved. Either it's one of Hornby's lesser books or the screenplay completely messes it up. The characters are all ridiculous. Ruth Gemmel as Sarah is thoroughly obnoxious and completely imbecilic. She's uptight ninety percent of the time, but invites Paul (Colin Firth) to sleep with her the first time she has him over, and this is only a week or so after she first meets him and hates him. Meanwhile, poor Paul is obsessed with Arsenal--a bit too much, admittedly, but Sarah acts like he's committing murder every time he goes to a game. There is no chemistry between the leads, I don't believe they'd last two weeks as a couple, let alone six months or whatever it's supposed to be. The pacing's all over the place, the best friends are irritating (hers more than his). How is she expecting to pay that cab driver when she's wearing a pocketless dress and has no purse? Why doesn't she just leave him alone? Really, it's a waste of time. See Bridget Jones' Diary again, or Pride and Prejudice if you need your Colin Firth fix, or wait a year or so for all his post-Bridget success films to come out. Avoid this like the plague. There are many great British romantic comedies, so don't waste your time on this one.

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Summary: Something you can relate to
Review: I have read Nick Hornby's novel and finally got this movie to watch. Without a dobut, it's great as I thought it would be. Being a soccer fan for some years, I really appreciate that someone can tell my feeling about this sport that truely. And I was kind of envy Paul that his friends and families all turn out to be so supportive. What a lucky guy! Anyway, to answer one of the poster's question why that Arsenal wears yellow shirts sometimes. It's because their away shirt is yellow and black, and their home jersey is red and white. Since the last match is Liverpool versus Arsenal, and Liverpool's home jersey is red as well, in order to avoid confusions, Arsenal used their away colors.