Fever Pitch (1985)

Directed by

Richard Brooks

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

15

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets drawn into a high-stakes scheme involving gambling and sports betting. He and several others find their lives spinning out of control as the bets grow larger.

datedsillyclumsyunintentionally funnybizarreover-the-topmessyill-conceived

What happens

Fever Pitch is a 1985 American drama film written and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Ryan O'Neal, Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett, John Saxon, and Catherine Hicks. The film marked Brooks' final film before his death in 1992. The original score was composed by Thomas Dolby. Fever Pitch failed at the box office, grossing just over $600,000 on a budget of $7 million. It was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Musical Score at the 6th Golden Raspberry Awards as well as contributing to O'Neal's later Razzie nomination for Worst Actor of the Decade at the 10th Golden Raspberry Awards. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John J. B. Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the "100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made". The film was recut by the studio without Brooks' involvement. He called it "a much better picture before they took it away from me." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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