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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Fever pitch / a Channel Four Films presentation of a Wildgaze Films production ; screenplay by Nick Hornby ; produced by Amanda Posey ; directed by David Evans.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Fever Pitch is set during the 1988/89 football season. Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth), an English teacher in his thirties, is passionate about Arsenal. As the season and the film progresses, the club has a chance of winning 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. Somewhere between his all-consuming obsession with the Arsenal and his fractured love for Sarah, the hero of Fever Pitch has to find a life!

Subjects:

Soccer -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Soccer films.

Genre:

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Comedy films.

Romantic comedy films.

Other Author:

Firth, Colin, 1960-

Gemmell, Ruth.

Pearson, Neil, 1959-

Ashbourne, Lorraine.

Strong, Mark, 1963-

Aird, Holly, 1969-

Stott, Ken, 1955-

Evans, David Mickey.

Hornby, Nick.

Channel Four Films (Firm)

Wildgaze Films.

Notes:

Based on Nick Hornsby's best-selling autobiography.

Director of photography, Chris Seager, executive producers, Stephen Woolley and Nick Powell.

Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Neil Pearson, Lorraine Ashbourne, Mark Strong, Holly Aird, Ken Stott.

DVD ; region 1. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.

In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

ISBN:

1588170268

9781588170262

Other Number:

807358093

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

678648

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Fever pi