Fever Pitch

The Farrelly brothers latest effort falls short in both humor and romance | Marvin Olasky

Since the Farrelly brothers are best known for Dumb and Dumber, they could have called their new directorial product, Fever Pitch, "Obsessed and More Obsessed." In it, a businesswoman fighting for her next promotion (Drew Barrymore) falls in love with a schoolteacher who is a Boston Red Sox fanatic (Jimmy Fallon).

Today's other big pair of filmmaking brothers, the Coens, might have used this plot to explore the nature of career and sports obsessions as alternative religions, and to raise the question of what holes in the soul they fill. The Farrellys make lighter movies, and that's fine, but this one falls short in both humor and romance, with Ms. Barrymore in particular woodenly swinging and missing. (She does recite well one good line: "All those things you feel for that team. I feel them, too, for you.")

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