"Fever Pitch" the Movie

[Catfish]

I saw the last few minutes of this flick on HBO. Now I can't find it at ANY video store or my library. Where can I borrow a copy of this fun movie???
Thanks,
Patrick....Go Gunners!

[Coach_McGuirk]

If you have HBO Signature with your cable, "Fever Pitch" will be shown this Thursday morning at 3:10 AM Central Time. Set your VCR's accordingly...

[Goonerette]

or you can buy them from ebay. Not sure about videos, but I've definately seen books of it at ebay.co.uk.

[KevTheGooner]

They released a US version on DVD (not sure about VHS)...I know because I got my bro' a copy last year for christmas.

"T-Bars! Man, how I'd love to play on a field with t-bars!"

"Its not the smoking, Steve, its the crapness"

[Coach_McGuirk]

Originally posted by The Gooner
"Its not the smoking, Steve, its the crapness"

My favorite quote from the movie! Well done!

[TheSlipperyOne]

Or you can wait until the Americanized version is made with soccer replaced with baseball...

[Jeff L]

My favourite quote from the film is when he speaks to his boys team after just having a row with his girlfriend by the pitch.
"Get stuck into this lot; the're crap".
I quite often say it whilst at Highbury when the goals are flowing in.
(West Brom and Birmingham spring to mind this season).

[Andy]

Originally posted by TheSlipperyOne
Or you can wait until the Americanized version is made with soccer replaced with baseball...

A baseball team that resemble Sp*rs alot more than Arsenal mind you.

[dwinkler]

Originally posted by The Gooner
"Its not the smoking, Steve, its the crapness" Hey, that used to be my sig!

[ArsenalTexan3]

Speaking of Fever Pitch, is it the UK version of Slap Shots? Only say Slap Shots II and it was great.


Also, what is the name of the one movie that was suppose to come out in the UK last Winter/spring? I think it was either Black/Red Machine. Only thing I can remember about the previews were it is based in a prison and some of the prisoniers rally together to form a soccer team and they play the guards. I remember Fox Sports World showing the previews. Looked like a good movie. Thanks if anyone has a clue what I'm talking about.

[Coach_McGuirk]

Originally posted by ArsenalTexan3
Speaking of Fever Pitch, is it the UK version of Slap Shots?

Definetely not the UK version of Slap Shot. It's an autobiography of Nick Hornby, basically, and the 1989 Arsenal team that won the league on the last day of the season, 2-0 over Liverpool away. It's about 40% flashback to how he became an Arsenal supporter, and 60% on how his love of Arsenal affects his life in the present.

[dwinkler]

Originally posted by ArsenalTexan3
Also, what is the name of the one movie that was suppose to come out in the UK last Winter/spring? I think it was either Black/Red Machine. Only thing I can remember about the previews were it is based in a prison and some of the prisoniers rally together to form a soccer team and they play the guards. I remember Fox Sports World showing the previews. Looked like a good movie. Thanks if anyone has a clue what I'm talking about. Mean Machine, a remake of The Longest Yard. Starring Vinnie Jones. Never saw it, but I'd bet the house that it couldn't hold a candle to the original.

By the way, a remake of Fever Pitch is in the works, except it's in the U.S., it's about baseball, and the Red Sox supposedly win in the end.

[Jeff L]

I don't know if "The Longest Yard" is one of the same, starrring Burt Reynolds as a former pro footballer serving time in a Florida prison, but if so it was called "The Mean Machine" when it was shown in the UK. It was good.
Haven't seen the UK version with Vinnie Jones yet, but might get around to it this week.

[Jeff L]

Does anyone else have "favourite quotes" from the film other than those already posted?
Or any particular shot/scene?

[cdngunnerbob]

I liked the scene where Sara and Paul are walking down a street and she asks him what he's thinking about and he replies "D. H. Lawrence". This is followed by a short discussion on the length of Lawrence's novels and finally he admits that he "can't say Arsenal every time" she asks him what he's thinking about.

Bob

[revelation]

Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones is absolutely hilarious! Nothing deep or meaningful about it just quality humor...

"Fever Pitch" as a movie was a disappointment after the book, but then again you can't stuff that many years of someone's life into a 2 hour movie. There are some great parts but really too much of a love story and not enough of "obsession with Arsenal" for my tastes...

[Jeff L]

"Been there, done that!"

[Goldy]

Originally posted by Jeff Lancaster
Does anyone else have "favourite quotes" from the film other than those already posted?
Or any particular shot/scene?

One of my best quotes was where he says, "it came to a point when I don't know if life was crap b/c Arsenal was crap or Arsenal is crap b.c life is crap"

Or something along those lines where life & Arsenal become one.

[HighburyGoon]

One of my favorite parts is when Sara comes by to console Paul about not getting the promotion. At first he's pleased that she's showing sympathy, until he realizes it's for the job, and not the fact that Arsenal had lost that day!

[Jeff L]

Another part that gets me "fired up" inside, (of which there are many) is when the "young Paul" is sitting in the car with his Dad, who is trying to pursuade him to go to the zoo, or the movies to watch "Jungle Book" instead of going to Arsenal and says to him, "I thought that we were beyond that stage now".
"Young Paul" rpelies, WE'LL 'NEVER' BE BEYOND THAT STAGE!" (Gets me every time; "memories"!)

Just adding that when my girlfriend/wife first moved over from Florida "Fever Pitch" was the first video that I ever showed her, adding, "Watch this. This is what your life will be like!". (It was!).