A sports fans romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team. With drew barrymore, jimmy fallon, jason spevack, jack kehler. At the start of the film, the narrator talks about 86 years of banging our head against the big green wall. The fate of a romantic relationship between a soccerobsessed english teacher and his goalobsessed colleague depends upon the fortunes of a local team that hasnt won a league cup in 18 years. In 1997, hornby wrote the screenplay for a film adaptation of the book depicting a football fan during arsenals championship year in 1988, and the sports effect on his love life. Because fever pitch involves a boston red sox fan and takes place during the miraculous 2004 season, do not make the mistake of thinking it is a baseball movie.
The book describes eighteen years of the protagonist. Mar 23, 2012 superficially, fever pitch by nick hornby is about arsenal. The contents are mostly the same as described in the book. Fever pitch, first published in 1992, is a memoir and hornbys first book. He discusses seminal football matches hes attended and their relationship to his life as a whole. Novel brings typhoid mary to life by karen croke, westchester county, n. Fever pitch 1992, an autobiographical book by british author nick hornby, explores hornbys life through his love for football soccer in america and with the arsenal football club in particular. Based on nick hornbys best selling autobiographical novel, fever pitch.
The movie shows only half a year of the book, with nick hornby as a teacher in cambridge. Fever pitch was the first of nicks books to be adapted into a film. Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with ben and his passion for the. For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, i am a moron. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornbys awardwinning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandomits agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens comingofage stories. Fever pitch released as the perfect catch outside the united states and canada is a 2005 romantic comedy film. Buy a cheap copy of fever pitch book by nick hornby. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and with arsenal football club in particular. Fever pitch 1996 david evans synopsis, characteristics. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. When lindsay drew barrymore meets ben, its wintertime, and hes a sweetheart of a beau who takes tender care of her when she has food poisoning and reminds her that theres more to life than her job.
Having sold over a million copies in the united kingdom, it was named the william hill sports book of the year in 1992 and made into a penguin modern classic in august 2012. The numberone bestseller nick hornby explores childhood, adolescence and adulthood through the ups and downs of football in the millioncopyselling, william hill sports book of the year winner, fever pitch. Fever pitch is hornbys tribute to a lifelong, obsession soccer. It won the william hill sports book of the year award in 1992, and in 2012 was named a penguin modern classic. To be fair, however, mgm is not scrupulous about its own image. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornbys awardwinning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens coming of age stories, fever pitch is one for the home team. Fever pitch by nick hornby introduction, sunday, 14th july 1991.
It was released by working titlechannel 4 films in 1997. Jul 11, 20 having sold over a million copies in the united kingdom, it was named the william hill sports book of the year in 1992 and made into a penguin modern classic in august 2012. Journal news keane%27s work is biofiction%2c a fictionalized factbased account. Ben fallon is an obsessed member of red sox nation and has been for 23 years. Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with ben and his passion for the boston red sox. In the states, nick hornby is best know as the author of high fidelity and about a boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere. Its a friday night at the new theatre in oxford, and an appreciative round of applause ends fever pitch the play, a 90 minute soliloquy performed admirably by james kermack.
It is a remake of the british 1997 film of the same name. Nick hornbys fever pitch was even reprinted with a new cover and included as a part of the 200506 arsenal fc membership pack for the final salute to highbury. Ending spoiler for fever pitch 2005, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. It is a movie about how men and women, filled with love and motivated by the best will in the world, simply do not speak the same emotional language. Their relationship develops in tandem with arsenals roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax. In soccermad england, fever pitch published in the uk in 1992 was a careermaker. It is directed by the farrelly brothers, and stars drew barrymore and jimmy fallon.
Drew barrymore and jimmy fallon hit fenway for the fever pitch premiere. In fever pitch, ben jimmy fallon is a high school teacher who happily explains his priorities on espn. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fever pitch meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Superficially, its all about arsenals ups and downs, the history of the club, and how the wins and losses intertwined with the authors life. Fever pitch is a nonfiction memoir by nick hornby, an english writer, that details his obsession with the arsenal football team. But then ben meets lyndsey meeks, and suddenly anythings possible. Nick hornby, who had written the original book and the 1997 screenplay adaptation, acted as an executive producer. Nick begins going to every game he can, and his interest soon becomes an obsession. Kelsey avoids the wrath of charles, and escapes upstate with josh and lauren. Fever pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. To avoid confusion, this 2005 remake is known as the perfect catch in the uk. Individual games are used as a marker as hornby recalls moments in his life from childhood to early 30s.
More for fever pitch mistakes visible crewequipment. It seems a natural choice for an american adaptation to center on the boston red. Given that this, his first book, was about his obsessive relationship with the north london soccer team, arsenal, many americans didnt hear that voice until high fidelity 1995, a novel that riffed on the broader subject of favorite bands and songs. To love a sporting team is to know the constant, dull ache of suffering at best punctuated by fleeting moments of triumph, at worst. Nov 12, 2012 fever pitch by nick hornby published by penguin as a penguin modern classic 2012. It pretends to be a warning against compulsive gambling, but it falls for the oldest dodge in the gamblers book. Nick wrote the screenplay himself, translating his awardwinning memoir into a romantic comedy starring colin firth.
Liza discovers an exciting new author, whose pitch takes an unexpected turn. Each chapter covers a single match attended between the late 60s and the early 90s, and relates to hornbys own. His father takes nick to his first arsenal game as a way to bond after leaving nicks mother for another woman. Book presentation fever pitch by nick hornby referat. In a humorous vein, hornby guides the reader through a series of football matches soccer games played from 1968 to 1991 by an english firstdivision team known as arsenal. Fever pitch love lessons book 2 kindle edition by cullinan, heidi.