KaDee Strickland do next, she did not focus as much on genre as she did on good characters, scripts, and directors, which she said "don't come around that often." For the scene in which her character hides under her bed covers, Strickland received a 2005 Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie Scary Scene. In late 2004, Strickland embarked on what she called "the craziest job I've ever had": a role in the Farrelly brothers film "Fever Pitch", a baseball-themed romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon (Strickland's "Anything Else" co-star) and based on the Nick Hornby book. Strickland said it
Drew Barrymore saw her play a pregnant woman unknowingly falling for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby. In the romantic drama "Ever After", inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella, she took on the leading role; the film, which made $98 million globally, served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well "she can hold the screen and involve us in her characters". Barrymore voiced the title role of an anthropomorphic Jack Russell terrier in the television Christmas special "Olive, the Other Reindeer", for which she was nominated for an Primetime Emmy. After Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen established