Rent Fever Pitch (1997)

3.4 of 5 from 84 ratings
1h 37min
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Synopsis:
Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling autobiography, 'Fever Pitch' is set during the 1988/89 football season. Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth), an English teacher in his thirties, is passionate about Arsenal. As the season and the film progress, the club has a chance of winning the league for the first time in 18 years. Meanwhile, his on-off romance with fellow-teacher and non-football fan, Sarah, mirrors the Gunners' fluctuating season. The romance is dealt a near fatal blow by a home defeat against Derby. Arsenal, Paul and Sarah have one more chance - but it's a long shot.
Hornby's romantic comedy received considerable critical acclaim and appeals equally to men, women, football fans and the football-perplexed.
Actors:
, , , Bea Guard, , , , , , , , , , , , , Jackie Hyffes, Joe Reddington, , Mike Ingham
Directors:
Producers:
Amanda Posey
Writers:
Nick Hornby
Studio:
Cinema Club
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sports & Sport Films
Collections:
The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Stephen Frears
BBFC:
Release Date:
07/06/2004
Run Time:
97 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 3.0
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Photo Library
BBFC:
Release Date:
28/05/2012
Run Time:
97 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All
Bonus:
  • Trailer
  • Photo Library

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Hilarious RomCom - Fever Pitch review by GI

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09/09/2022

Hilarious British RomCom based on the autobiographical novel by Nick Hornby who wrote the screenplay (the film story bears little resemblance to Hornby's diary like ode to a football fan). Set in the 1980s (with flashbacks to the 60s) it's all about a schoolteacher who is an obsessive fan of Arsenal football club, a passion that makes him popular with his pupils and their fathers. He coaches the school team, has a carefree everyday life except he despairs that Arsenal will ever win anything. Against the odds he begins a relationship with a frosty fellow teacher who is simply baffled by his football mania. When she falls pregnant he has to make some life changing decisions. This is thematically a film about gender conflicts and a conflict of priorities wrapped around a male/female divide. It's really very funny and ranks as one of the best of the British wave of romcoms from the 1990s. Colin Firth is great as the man/child with an 80s perm who loves nothing more than his student lifestyle with his best friend played hilariously by Mark Strong. They appear uninterested in sex or indeed women in general until Ruth Gemmell's sexually repressed woman appears and their blossoming love life is frustrated by the machismo obsession of Arsenal. Just when you think the film creates a complete separation over gender it opens up the divide to show the passion is for all. Everyone becomes caught up in the excitement of the team's big game. Anyway however you want to read the sexual politics on display here this is a very funny film, typically British in humour and style and brilliantly recreates school life in the 80s. A feel good film that needs rediscovering.

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