Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch

🎞️ Movie 96 min US
โ˜… 4.2 /10 1985

Everybody's doing it. Gambling is the new national pastime. Reporter Steve Taggart's digging to get the 200 billion dollar story. Bet on it.

Investigative sports journalist veteran Steve Taggart is working on his latest story - an inside look at professional gambling. The subject of his piece is a man he calls Mr. Green, a degenerate gambler who indirectly ruined his family and yet still can't stop gambling or betting. His editor loves the story but what he doesn't know is that Mr. Green is actually Taggart himself. In order to get more inside info about his topic, Taggart visits various gambling venues and interviews several people including a friendly casino manager and his top cocktail waitress Flo, who was once a gambling addict herself. However, Taggart has bigger problems than dealing with his addiction and finishing his assignment, since his loan shark is threatening to harm his little daughter, who lives in a nice boarding school, unless he pays up his growing debt. Taggart tries to deal with everything his own way - with more gambling. Eventually, writing the article becomes a form of personal catharsis for desperate Taggart and helps him finally decide to try to face his problems, but the story takes an unexpected turn at the end.

Cast

Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal
Taggart
Catherine Hicks
Catherine Hicks
Flo
Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini
Charley
Bridgette Andersen
Bridgette Andersen
Amy
Chad Everett
Chad Everett
Dutchman
John Saxon
John Saxon
Sports Editor
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Hank Greenspun
Vegas Sun Publisher
William Smith
William Smith
Panama Hat
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Keith Hefner
Sweeney
Rafael Campos
Rafael Campos
Rafael
Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby
Composer
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William A. Fraker
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

Fever Pitch (1985) promo on TNT
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Fever Pitch (1985) promo on TNT