JoBeth Williams in "Just Write" with Jeremy Piven. In 2005, she appeared in the Drew Barrymore-Jimmy Fallon baseball comedy "Fever Pitch". In October 2011, she appeared with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, and Jack Black in the bird-watching comedy "The Big Year" for Twentieth Century Fox. Williams has also gained critical acclaim for a number of performances in notable television movies, including the nuclear holocaust film "The Day After" (1983), "Murder Ordained" (1987), as Lois Burnham Wilson in "My Name is Bill W." (1989), and the critically acclaimed "Masterpiece Theatre" presentation of "The Ponder Heart" (2003) for director Martha Coolidge. She
Fever Pitch (2005 film) 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale. From a cinematographic and literary perspective, the film received some favorable criticism from experts Roger Ebert and James Berardinelli. The film opened at #3 and grossed $12.4 million in its opening weekend. The final North American gross of the film was $42,071,069, and the worldwide gross was $50,451,307. "Sports Guy" Bill Simmons of ESPN disliked the film because he regarded it as a "chick flick" disguising itself as a sports movie and said