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NUMBERS
Box Office: $28,303,771
VHS Rentals: $5,980,000
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CONSENSUS
A Fatal Attraction rip-off, Swimfan is a predictable, mediocre thriller.
CAST & CREW
Jesse Bradford, Shiri Appleby, Erika Christensen
Directed by John Polson
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, mature thematic elements, sexual content, disturbing images, and language
RUNTIME
85 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 6, 2002
Video: Mar 11, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
20th Century Fox
GENRE
Dramas, Thriller, Stalkers
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Swimfan Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "Australian actor/director John Polson and award-winning English cinematographer Giles Nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The story may not be new, but Australian director John Polson, making his American feature debut, jazzes it up adroitly."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
 "Starts out mediocre, spirals downward, and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"No surprises."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"The only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Made for teens and reviewed as such, this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age...and then only as a very mild rental."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Drowning's too good for this sucker."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"On the surface, the film is played straight, with sustained tension and effective frights. But the director has done his research, and fills every scene with a subversive humor that's 100% pure imitation Hitchcock."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"A waterlogged version of 'Fatal Attraction' for the teeny-bopper set...a sad, soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"...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."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"Like its script, which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire Olympic swim team through, the characters in Swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull, brain-deadening hangover."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"One of these days Hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie, but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
"I was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun, but it was neither."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"There are plot holes big enough for Shamu the killer whale to swim through."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"If swimfan does catch on, it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"The stars may be college kids, but the subject matter is as adult as you can get: the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed, overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene, 'Swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Producer John Penotti surveyed high school students...and came back with the astonishing revelation that "they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them." Ignoring that, he made Swimfan anyway"
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"I hate this movie"
-- Stefan Birgir Stefansson, SBS.IS
"Generic thriller junk. Teens only."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"essentially "Fatal Attraction" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987. ...this story gets sillier, not scarier, as it goes along..."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"A plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"A technically well-made suspenser...but its abrupt drop in IQ points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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ROTTEN 14%
Avg. Rating: 4.9/10 |
"It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck, preferably a semi."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough. Do we really need the Tiger Beat version?"
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"Nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"It's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend. You don't want to call the cops. You want to call Domino's."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"Not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh, groan and hiss at."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"The project's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger Fatal Attraction into a high school setting."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Swimfan, like Fatal Attraction, eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot, expertly cast, paced with crisp professionalism... and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"A chiller resolutely without chills."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"[Swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting, an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
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"...fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Swimfan" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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