Fever Pitch first Major League Baseball World Series victory in 86 years. This championship was entirely coincidental; the 2005 version was being filmed during the 2004 regular season, including scenes filmed at Fenway Park during actual games. As the Red Sox continued to progress through the playoffs, the Farrellys rewrote the script to include the historic moment. The movie was renamed "The Perfect Catch" outside North America to avoid confusion with the 1997 film. Fever Pitch Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: "Fever Pitch" (1997,
John Drew Barrymore a week and a half of rehearsals. Barrymore went to Italy to star in "The Cossacks" (1960) with Edmund Purdom. The actor stayed in Europe for the next few years. He and Purdom were reunited on "The Night They Killed Rasputin" (1960), with Barrymore playing Felix Yusupov. Barrymore starred in "I'll See You in Hell" (1960) with Eva Bartok, "The Pharaohs' Woman" (1961), "The Centurion" (1961), "The Trojan Horse" (1961) with Steve Reeves (Barrymore played Ulysses), "Pontius Pilate" (1961) with Jean Marais, Jeanne Crain and Basil Rathbone (Barrymore played Judas and Jesus), "Invasion 1700" (1962) with Crain, and "Arms of