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Swimfan (2002)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:13
Rotten:76
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: A Fatal Attraction rip-off, Swimfan is a predictable, mediocre thriller.
Theatrical Release:Sep 6, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $28,303,771
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... [More]
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Shiri Appleby, Erika Christensen, Dan Hedaya
Director: John Polson
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Reviews for Swimfan
A tapestry of loose ends.
02/08/08
Director John Polson mutes the conservative sexual politics of the original film, focusing on the lightweight, efficient suspense story.
02/08/08
Top CriticIt would be so easy for an actress to overplay this role, to morph into high camp, but Christensen stays icy cool.
02/08/08
Top CriticOnly the very easily pleased will be able to see past its limitations.
02/09/06
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
A mean-spirited, incompetent disaster.
02/01/04
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
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
...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
Starts well, but ends up being derivative and annoying.
10/30/02
I hate this movie
10/18/02
...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.
10/15/02
...a listless tale of sex, stalkers and stupidity for the SAT set.
10/14/02
No surprises.
10/06/02
Drowning's too good for this sucker.
10/02/02
Late-summer flotsam from the shallow end of the genre movie pool.
10/02/02
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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