Fever Pitch is light romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon about a couple who meet and fall in love in Boston during the baseball off season. Only later does Barrymore understand just what it means to be a baseball fan and a Red Sox fan at that. This movie ended up being more sweet than I expected.
The best story about the making of the movie is that they were filming this during the year that the Red Sox won the world series, but of corse they did not know that the Red Sox would win. So at the end of the movie when they realized that the Red Sox might win they had to scramble and get a film crew and the two stars to the World Series. The shots of them running out onto the field were real. Of course it helps that it is a Fox movie and that the World Series was being televised by Fox Sports. Having that footage they were then able to make the necessary re-write of the script that included the fate of the team without having to spend enormous amounts of money recreating the events.
