For all of you die-hard Boston Red Sox fans out there, my heart goes out to you.

So does the new film, Fever Pitch, a Farrelly brothers' ode to all things Red Sox in the world, or at least the world of Ben (Jimmy Fallon), the central character in the film.

I'm not a Red Sox fan, nor do I claim to be much of a Major League Baseball fan at the moment, and I would not fit in anywhere near Ben and his circle of friends. But that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate Fever Pitch, a movie that happens to be about much more than baseball. In fact, the least the movie has going for it is the fact that many viewers will suspect that it is only for sports fans.

In reality, this film is about the nature of obsession. One priority that is everything to one human being can mean absolutely nothing to the person standing next to them.

Take Ben, for example, and his new girlfriend Lindsey (Drew Barrymore). Throughout his existence, Ben has known one thing to be true: Red Sox baseball is all that matters. He lives, breathes (especially when sniffing a fresh package of season tickets) and eats Boston Red Sox baseball to the point that he has a near split personality disorder. There is tame-winter Ben and then there is obsessive-summer Ben.

Lindsey is just not that interested in baseball, or she isn't until Ben reveals his fixation with her. Up to this point in the film, Lindsey has only known winter Ben -- a pleasantly normal man who she has grown quite fond of -- and boy does she have a surprise coming.

Circumstances have already led Lindsey and her friends to speculate as to why the seemingly perfect Ben is still single. After all, no man approaching 30 can be alone without a good explanation for it.

But as Lindsey soon realizes, Ben is not alone; he has the Sox. And, as he relates to his seatmates at Fenway Park during one point in the film, the Sox are the most reliable part of his life. For as long as a game is scheduled, the players on the team are going to be on the field.

It is a point of view that only a person like Ben can completely understand, someone who has such a passion for the game that it becomes life. Lindsey certainly doesn't understand it, and confusion ensues.

In the midst of that confusion, we get one of the most realistic portrayals of a relationship that has graced the screen for some time. If men truly are from Mars and women from Venus, the saying has never had a better example than the coupling of Lindsey and Ben.

Then why do the two like each other so much? Because the film's writers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel -- working from a Nick Hornby novel -- and the Farrelly brothers understand that this is how relationships are nowadays, and they don't shy away from it. Obviously people are still getting together and obviously they may have mutual differences, but that does not necessarily mean they can't be together forever.

The movie gives us great examples of compromise: Lindsey goes to Red Sox games, Ben goes to Lindsey's social gatherings. But it also doesn't let us forget who each of these people are: Ben won't go on a trip to Paris with Lindsey, and she won't let him forget that baseball is just a game.

By staying true to its source material, Fever Pitch succeeds in giving us the two-sided nature of relationships. If tails just so happens to be the dirty underbelly, heads could always be the reason why two people like Lindsey and Ben are so perfect for each other.