Fever Pitch (1985 film)

Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Richard Brooks
Written by	Richard Brooks
Produced by	Freddie Fields
Starring	Ryan O'Neal; Catherine Hicks; Giancarlo Giannini; Chad Everett;
Cinematography	William A. Fraker
Edited by	Jeff Jones
Music by	Thomas Dolby
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Release date	November 22, 1985;
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$7 million or $10 million
Box office	$244,133

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's 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 Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, as well as contributing to O'Neal's later Razzie nomination for Worst Actor of the Decade. 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".^[3]

The film was recut by the studio without Brooks' involvement. He called it " a much better picture before they took it away from me."^[4]

^ Mann, Roderick (6 July 1980). "MOVIES: THE HIGH ADVENTURES OF 'GREEN ICE'". Los Angeles Times. p. o25.
^ ^a ^b "The Unstoppables". Spy. November 1988. p. 92.
^ Wilson, John (2005). The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-69334-0.
^ McGilligan, Pat (1991). "Richard Brooks: The Professional". Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press.

[ice-1] Mann, Roderick (6 July 1980). "MOVIES: THE HIGH ADVENTURES OF 'GREEN ICE'". Los Angeles Times. p. o25.

[spy-2] "The Unstoppables". Spy. November 1988. p. 92.

[3] Wilson, John (2005). The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-69334-0.

[4] McGilligan, Pat (1991). "Richard Brooks: The Professional". Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press.

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