October 17 - Fever Pitch

Today’s movie is a romantic comedy with a scene that happens on October 17. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

FEVER PITCH                             

Ben Wrightman is a diehard Boston Red Sox fan who is a junior high math teacher. One day on a field trip with his class he meets Lindsey Meeks, a workaholic executive. When he asks her out, she says no but later changes her mind. They start dating, including going to Red Sox games. At a game where Lindsey is working on her laptop to catch up on her job, she is hit by a foul ball and stops going to the games. Lindsey gets upset with Ben when he will not accompany her on a work trip to Paris because Ben does not want to miss any Red Sox games. He does miss a game against the Yankees to go to a friend of Lindsey’s birthday party. However when Ben grumbles after he learns he missed an epic game in which the Sox came from behind to win, Lindsey says he has broken her heart and they separate. Ben later unsuccessful tries to reconcile with Lindsey and misses her so much he decides to sell his Red Sox season tickets. On October 17, 2004 Lindsey gets a big promotion at work and learns of Ben’s plan to sell his tickets. She races to Fenway Park and climbs out onto the field and gets to Ben. Lindsey tells him that if he loves her enough to sell his tickets, she loves him enough not to let him do it. They reconcile with a kiss as the Red Sox go on to beat the Yankees. [1:25:00 to 1:34:29] Ben and Lindsey go to the World Series and watch the Red Sox win. They later get married.

A decent romantic comedy. It is somewhat predictable, but it’s still good. Manages to be interesting to both men and woman, which is a rarely accomplished feat.

Producers - Amanda Posey, Alan Greenspan, Gil Netter, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen and Bradley Thomas

Directors - Peter Farrelly and Robert Farrelly

Screenplay - Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel

Runtime – 1 hour 43 minutes

Released – April 8, 2005

Starring –

Drew Barrymore as Lindsey Meeks

Jimmy Fallon as Ben Wrightman

Jason Spevack as Ben in 1980

Jack Kehler as Al

Scott Severance as Artie

Jessamy Finet as Theresa

Maureen Keiller as Viv

Lenny Clarke as Uncle Carl

Ione Skye as Molly

Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Lana

KaDee Strickland as Robin

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.