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02/08/08
Swimfan (2002)
15 %
Reviews Counted: 88 Fresh: 13 Rotten:75 Average Rating: 3.8/10
Consensus:
A Fatal Attraction rip-off, Swimfan is a predictable, mediocre thriller.
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: This teen psychodrama directed by John Polson plays like a Generation Y version of FATAL ATTRACTION. Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) is a high school swimmer with an incredibly promising future. On the verge of securing a scholarship to Stanford, and in love with the too-good-to-be-true Amy... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Shiri Appleby, Erika Christensen, Dan Hedaya, Kate Burton
Director: John Polson
Screenwriter: Philip Schneider, Charles Bohl
Producer: John Penotti, Allison Lyon Segan, Joseph M. Caracciolo
Composer: Louis Febre
Screenwriter: Philip Schneider, Charles Bohl
Producer: John Penotti, Allison Lyon Segan, Joseph M. Caracciolo
Composer: Louis Febre
Reviews
Only the very easily pleased will be able to see past its limitations.
02/09/06
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No points for originality, but young audiences will lap up the mix of nubile teens and cheap shocks, while the solid performances provide something for less hormone-ravaged viewers.
03/30/03
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Ultimately this is a pretty lame movie, without the sardonic wit that parts of the script had seemed initially to promise -- but workmanlike enough.
10/02/02
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A plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists.
09/03/02
Top Critic
If only the filmmakers had resisted the urge to go down the well-worn Hollywood thriller path.
08/29/02
Director John Polson mutes the conservative sexual politics of the original film, focusing on the lightweight, efficient suspense story.
02/08/08
It would be so easy for an actress to overplay this role, to morph into high camp, but Christensen stays icy cool.
02/08/08
Bradford spends the entire film with an Andrew Shue-ish sullen, slack-jawed expression, but even that's more than what the bland Appleby brings to her doormat role.
12/06/05
Was anybody clamoring for yet another teen movie? Or, even worse, a teen version of Fatal Attraction?
01/06/04
Seguindo o tom juvenil (no sentido pejorativo da palavra) do roteiro, podemos descrever este filme com uma regra de três simples: Fixação está para Atração Fatal assim como Erika Christensen está para Glenn Close.
07/15/03
...fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense.
03/11/03
Christensen is clearly the best thing about this movie; her transition from a pretty, personable high school girl to a psychotic killer is subtle and disturbing. But its charms mainly end there.
02/08/03
...it’s sometimes difficult to know whether to admire “Swimfan” for being such a tidy little mimic that admittedly has its moments or to hate it for its utter lack of ingenuity and creativity.
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