Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling autobiography, Fever Pitch is set during the 1988/89 football season. Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth, star of Pride and Prejudice), an English teacher in his thirties, is passionate about Arsenal. As the season and the film progress, the club has a chance of sinning the league for the first time in 18 years. Meanwhile, his on-off romance with fellow teacher and non-football fan, Sarah, mirrors the Gunners' fluctuating season. The romance is dealt a near fatal blow by a home defeat against Derby. Arsenal, Paul and Sarah have one more chance - but it's a long shot. Horby's romantic comedy received considerable critical acclaim and appeals equally to men, women, football fans and the football-perplxed.

meet paul, an english teacher in his mid-thirties, a bachelor, a man with an obsession - the arsenal soccer team. midway through the season paul meets sarah, whose propensity for severity, dourness and single-minded professionalism reminds him of the arsenal's manager. paul thinks sarah is too uptight, sarah thinks paul is an insane, obsessed fanatic - and they embarrk on a relationship as tumultuous as the arsenals' winning streak.

Product details

Director	David Mickey Evans
Actor	Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Neil Pearson, Lorraine Ashbourne

Genre	Comedy Romanticism
Content	DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 0
Publication date	28.11.2000
Region code	1
Version	US Version
Year of production	1997
Length	102 Minutes
Audio	English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles	English, Spanish
Extras	Trailer

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Customer reviews

Ich habe...

Written on 08. October 2003 by Veronica.

...das Buch gelesen... und hoffe, dass der Film diesem nachkommt..
Fussball

Written on 09. August 2003 by Igel67.

In diesem Film sieht man Colin Firth einmal ganz anders. Er ist ein absoluter Fussballfan, vom Fussball hängt sein Leben ab. Der Film zeigt den Konflikt zwischen ihm und einer Frau, welche mit Fussball absolut nichts anfangen kann. Es ist eine romantische Komödie, ironisch und wirklich unterhaltsam. Die Geschichte zeigt wie sich die versch. Menschen entwickeln und ob man vom Fussballfieber geheilt werden kann;-)