Fever Pitch (Full Screen Edition)

The Farrelly Brothers THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY DUMB DUMBER take a slight departure from their signature breed of over-the-top gross-out humor and opt instead for sensitive restraint with this genuinely sweet love story. Credit is due in part to the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel SPANGLISH who adapt Nick Hornby's popular British novel moving it to Boston and exchanging the protagonist's obsession with soccer for an all-consuming love of baseball. Ever since his first childhood visit to Fenway Park easygoing schoolteacher Ben Jimmy Fallon has been in love with the Boston Red Sox. When he meets a successful workaholic named Lindsey Meeks Drew Barrymore he warns her that being such an avid fan has been a problem in his past relationships. On the brink of turning 30 Lindsey is eager to make what seems like an otherwise promising romance work and she agrees to go with Ben to opening day of the eventful 2004 season when the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. As baseball