Fever Pitch

Allowed 82 minutes • 1997 • 6.7

Paul (Colin Firth) is obsessed with his favorite football team Arsenal. His life is entirely structured according to their schedule and results and that’s the way he wants it. But when he starts dating his new teaching colleague Sarah (Ruth Gemmel), who is not the least bit interested in sports, he discovers that everything in life can’t be adjusted to the football season, no matter how much he wishes it was. The romantic comedy Fever pitch is based on Nick Hornby’s (High Fidelity, About a Boy) autobiographical debut novel from 1992.