Fever Pitch

Hapless Ben (Saturday Night Live alum Jimmy Fallon) is a teacher whose Boston Red Sox obsession consumes his life until he becomes smitten with Lindsay (Drew Barrymore), who couldnÕt care less about the sport. Sounds like your typical romantic comedy, except that it’s based on a novel by Nick Hornby, the Helen Fielding-for-guys who brought us High Fidelity and About a Boy. Also, it’s directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber). Hornby is adept at creating goofy and shambling characters with a stupid side that his readers identify with, while the Farrellys are notorious for making the stupid side of characters the only side you want to see. So Fever Pitch looks well-positioned to become a romantic comedy classic–or at least a romantic baseball comedy classic.