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Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: John Polson / Actors: Jesse Bradford, Erika ... more
Swimfan (DVD) ... Christensen ... / DVD released 07 April, 2003 at Icon Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / A distinctly mediocre high-school thriller, Swimfan is worryingly predictable not only in its general direction, but also in its details. The moment that high school swimmer Ben (Jesse Bradford) tells Madison, a wild-eyed upper-class blonde with whom he has had a one-night stand in the pool, that she misunderstands their relationship, you start looking at the things he values and guessing the order in which she will break them. There is the sweet old man he helps as a hospital volunteer; there is the best friend and rival; there is the sickeningly sweet girlfriend--and sure enough each of them in turn finds themselves in jeopardy. And you just know it was a mistake for him to tell Madison about his druggy past and show her how to jimmy her way into lockers. This is essentially a remake of Fatal Attraction, but one lacking the edge of madness that Glenn Close brought to her woman spurned. It combines by-the-numbers plot cues with some staggering implausibilities: at one point Ben is seriously suspected of a crime when he has nuns as witnesses to his presence in another state. Ill-thought-out in most ways, Swimfan's principal merit is Erika Christensen's loopy performance as Madison. On the DVD: Swimfan is presented in a widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1-85:1; but the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound sometimes has an imperfect balance between the crashing indie-rock score and the dialogue. The special features include deleted and extended scenes with or without commentary by director John Polson, an overly self-congratulatory commentary on the whole film by Polson and stars Bradford and Christensen, a mildly interesting featurette and the usual trailers and spots. --Roz Kaveney

Newest Review: ... so she asks if she can watch him, which leads her to tell him she doesn't know how to swim. Ben being the nice guy that he ... more

 ... is, offers to teach her but it doesn't exactly go as he had hoped. Madison turns on the charm and they end up having sex right there in the pool. Ben really regrets what he did and only thinks of it as a one night stand. He tells Madison that he just wants to be friends and she agrees, saying she understands. Madison doesn't really agree and starts to send Ben loads of emails, goes round to his house when he isn't even home as well as some other pretty weird things. How far will Madison go to get her man?? Cast Ben...more

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linzeelou
Premium Review Swimfan (DVD): Psychological thriller? I dont think so. (733 words)
by - written on 24/07/09 (Very useful, 42 readings)
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Swimfan was released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox. It is described as a psychological thriller and runs for 85 minutes. It is considered to be Fatal Attraction for a younger audience. Ben is a very athletic high school student with a promising future in swimming. As well as having a sweet girlfriend called Amy, Ben spends a lot of his time training in order to impress a scout coming from Stanford University and hopes to be in the Olympics one day. Ben pretty much has his life planned...until the new girl at school, Madison, takes a shine to him. At first, Ben seems utterly devoted to Amy, who he has been with for a long time and doesn't really ...  Read the complete review

NewYork2006
Premium Review Not a Fan!! (1136 words)
by - written on 17/06/07 (Very useful, 139 readings)
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I vaguely remember seeing a trailer for this film years ago (released September 2002) and thinking ‘oh that looks quite good, I’ll have to watch that one day’. Well ‘one day’ turned out to be yesterday after I borrowed the DVD from my friend and watching the film proved to me that I didn’t actually need to watch the entire 90 mins as the best bits were in the trailer anyway! Don’t get me wrong, this wasn’t a completely awful film (though I certainly wouldn’t watch it again) and it did have some mildly entertaining parts but put simply, this is a modern ‘fatal attraction’ for teenagers. The basic premise of the film is that Ben Cronin (Jesse ...  Read the complete review

BabyGirl%2A
Premium Review Swimfan (DVD): Looks Like Someones Been Rummaging Through The Recycle Bin A ... (2338 words)
by - written on 08/12/02 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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Have you ever wanted to see a film so bad, only to realise what a load of crap it was? Well that’s what happened to me with Swimfan. Let me explain. My friend Shannon and I have Monday afternoons free and have made a ritual of going to the cinema and then head to the bar next door for a drink and some lovely food ;) Anyway now that my best mate has found a new obsession with the gym we don’t go as often anymore. Well I told her we simply had to go and see Swimfan. From the trailer it looked like it would be a fast paced, thriller…well in reality it’s quite the opposite. Let’s just say we won’t be going to the cinema for a while now. ...  Read the complete review

wampyrii
Premium Review Fatal Attraction For Dummies (549 words)
by - written on 16/12/02 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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Swimfan is Fatal Attraction for the teenage audience. Fatally dull and as attractive as watching cleavage, tight butts and inane $10,000 smiles for 90 minutes can ever be. If you're like me and fail to see the attraction of teen thrillers then it's also not in the slightest bit entertaining but that comes from someone who didn't care much for Fatal Attraction in the first place and who hates the way Hollywood cannibalises old ideas and repackages them with clueless 20 somethings playing over-sexed college kids year in year out. If you generally like teen movies then it may be safe to ignore me, I'm just a miserable sod, otherwise, yes it's ...  Read the complete review

topsyturvy
Premium Review Swimfan (DVD): Do Not Be Tempted To Give Swimming Lessons (936 words)
by - written on 04/01/03 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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The reason I went to see this film is because I had been to the cinema and seen the trailer. The people who make the trailers have one job to make the film look good which is what they did with this film. I understood it was about a stalker and it seemed like a thriller which is my type of film usually although it did also look like a teen movie. This film is about a guy called Ben who obviously loves swimming, probably what he wants as a future career and he has a girlfreind called Amy, they are in a very close relationship and everything is going well. Amy is played by Shiri Appleby who you might have seen in the TV series Roswell. Ben is so close in getting ...  Read the complete review

 
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