admittedly and i know nothing about baseball and i be not even a fan of the sport and but that do not stop me enjoy the farrelly brother late film and fever pitch and a charmingly irreverent romantic comedy . the film be not really about baseball while rather and it really about relationship and and the emotional disconnectedness that can often take place . jimmy fall give his best performance to date star a ben and a dorky and lightly nerdy schoolteacher . ben be a kind of man boy and who unfortunately have never really grow up and and he foster an almost fanatical addiction to the red sox baseball team . ben have devote his life to the sox and and do everything from make the pilgrimage to florida for spring training to decorate every square inch of his apartment in team paraphernalia . one day and while take his honor geometry class to on a field trip to her office and ben meet the go get lindsey ( a wonderful draw barrymore ) . lindsey be a corporate and career orientate kind of girl and but she have a kind of cuteness that ben find totally endearing . he initially hesitant to ask her out and think that she way out of his class and and and lindsey doesn not immediately see a potential partner in ben . their first date get off to a disastrous start when lindsey be stricken with a severe case of food poison  and her resonant retching provide the first clue that we be and in fact and watch a farrelly brother movie . rather than accept lindsey rather urgent request to reschedule and ben stick around to play nurse and orderly and and janitor . so ben scrub the toilet and the dog teeth and while his love interest be pass out with a bucket next to her bed . when lindsey wake up in the morning and find him asleep on her couch and she begin the long and fitful process of dismantle the web of status anxiety and ambition she have come to think of a her standard . soon they be fall in love and with lindsey blithely accept ben fanatical devotion to his sport . have inherit choice season ticket from his beloved uncle and ben have organize his life around the season  he never miss a game . but their relationship and which have progress without a hitch throughout the winter and hit a snag at the start of the season . lindsey want ben to do other thing and like holiday with her parent and party with her friend and but ben begin to have trouble modulate his interest to meet lindsey halfway . can lindsey consent to his irrational devotion to the boy of summer in order to make their relationship work . can she really accommodate ben infatuation with sport . can a die hard and nerdy red sox fan find true love after all . of course and lindsey and ben come with a colorful assortment of opinion wield friend . lindsey strictest buddy and the skinny and rich and blond robin ( kadee strickland ) and insist that there must be something wrong with the guy if he still single at 30. however and plump and curly haired sarah ( marissa jaret winokur ) and molly ( ione skye ) supply a more optimistic and positive view of ben . ben eccentricity could be apply to virtually any obsessive sport fan and while lindsay frustration could be representative of any upwardly mobile career drive woman . fallon be terrific a ben and exhibit real big screen potential and overcome the not insignificant challenge of keep ben from be unsympathetic . barrymore and meanwhile and be equally charm a the workaholic lindsey and particularly a she struggle to accept ben for who he be without lose sight of her own need . fever pitch really work and and even though there be lot of inspired comedic moment and the movie be also address the serious problem of sport addiction and how difficult it can be for couple to negotiate this fragile territory . much of the movie be film at boston fenway park and which add a fine sense of authenticity to the proceeding and as well a the ambiance of the game and though fully appreciate what transpire with the team will probably be limit to baseball aficionado . even so and fever pitch be bless with such a finely wrought and intelligently funny script that even novice baseball fan will find much with which to connect . mike leonard september 05 .