Fatal Attraction Lite
Added 1/13/2010
John Polson's 2002 thriller Swimfan plays like Fatal Attraction set in a high school.The movie borrows so liberally from the plot of the earlier film that it's hard to tell if this is an homage or a cheap knock off. Be that as it may Swimfan isn't really a horrible film and its short enough to be an enjoyable way to spend an evening.
Ben Cronin (Fessie Bradford)looks to have it all. He is on his school's swim team and college scouts are coming to see him. He has a beautiful girlfriend (Shiri Appleby) who loves him and a decent job at a local hospital. All of this falls apart when a new girl comes into his life. Madison Bell (Erika Christensen) is obsessed with Ben to the point of being crazy. She single handedly manipulates his life until he loses everything. To say more would be to destroy the fun of this film.
The standard definition DVD is double sided. I watched the widescreen version and had no issues with either picture or sound quality. The disc features ten deleted scenes with optional director commentary, a commentary track featuring Polson, Bradford and Christensen and a short making of featurette.
While this film is not great it may be worth a watch with a big bowl of popcorn.
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Great Movie!
Added 9/2/2009
Before I start, I'm tired of hearing all of these reviewers yelling Fatal Attraction! referring to the movie. Like we KNow!!!!!! That being said, the movie should be a cult classic because of how it starts and then turns out. Ben (our hero) has some pool sex with Madison (psycho new girl) and then she says "still friends right?" "you're not gonna tell anyone are you?" Ben looking lost and dumb as ever is like "no-no- im not gonna tell anyone." The very next day at school, its on!!!! He starts getting subtle hints on his locker that its not over and they are more than friends. He cheated and there is pretty much no way out! It gets worse as Madison befriends all of his friends, his girlfriend, his moms, and goes out with his best friend Josh. She gets him fired from his job at the Hospital, should I keep going? This is a cult classic because just 4 words out of Ben's mouth ended his career..."what u wanna do?" lol and he looks so dumb and lost saying it as Madison grins an evil grin.....I knew it was over and he told her he had a girl, he did!!!! I can appreciate this movie because I can relate to Ben even though it didn't go as far thank goodness. Must see this movie! Its only like $0.01 now so what do you have to lose? I'm waiting for this to come out on blu-ray!
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"Very Suspenseful!"
Added 7/10/2009
"Swimfan" is actually the teen version of "Fatal Attraction" in which a good-looking swim jock, engaged to a cute simple creature, sleeps with another girl unbeknownst to him who is a psycho. Once this psycho realizes she can never have the jock she goes out of her way to destroy him and his girlfriend. I was actually surprised how good this film was. Jesse Bradford is breathtaking to look at and Erika Christensen portrays the role of the psycho to perfection. The movie had a lot of exciting moments and the message of it is clear: if you play around you can get burned.
The DVD features 10 deleted scenes, audio commentary by the stars and director John Polson, and a wonderful featurette "The Girlfriend From Hell".
The Associated Press calls "Swimfan" a "creepy thriller".
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Watchable but it's all been done before and to better effect
Added 10/17/2008
This is more than watchable but the type of story is probably the most overdone in Hollywood. Boy and girl are happy. Boy meets another girl and has a brief fling. Boy wants to be left alone. The "other" girl now scorned goes to any lengths to get him back. The performances with the exception of Erika Christensen who shows promise are medicore at best. Something that irritates me with these films is how the "good" girl who gets cheated on quickly forgives the boy for what he's done. There have been plenty of opportunities for these "Fatal Attraction" films to do something different to set itself apart from all the other imitators. How about the girl does not forgive the boyfriend and perhaps she can become the one who gets revenge on him and the girl he cheated with or maybe she can leave town for good and let him deal with the aftermath himself like he deserves. Anything but the standard formula would make me give it an extra star just for thinking outside the box. I loved Fatal Attraction and even The Crush, but nothing in this is worth remembering or watching again. Swim away from this typical candybag because it will not make a fan out of you. I would have given it 2 stars but Erika Christensen makes it 3.
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This movie was okay.... The suspense is what kept me watching this movie. The movie is very good. They had picked very good actors to play the roles in these roles. You should definetly watch this movie!
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Fatal Attraction Lite
Added 1/13/2010
John Polson's 2002 thriller Swimfan plays like Fatal Attraction set in a high school.The movie borrows so liberally from the plot of the earlier film that it's hard to tell if this is an homage or a cheap knock off. Be that as it may Swimfan isn't really a horrible film and its short enough to be an enjoyable way to spend an evening.
Ben Cronin (Fessie Bradford)looks to have it all. He is on his school's swim team and college scouts are coming to see him. He has a beautiful girlfriend (Shiri Appleby) who loves him and a decent job at a local hospital. All of this falls apart when a new girl comes into his life. Madison Bell (Erika Christensen) is obsessed with Ben to the point of being crazy. She single handedly manipulates his life until he loses everything. To say more would be to destroy the fun of this film.
The standard definition DVD is double sided. I watched the widescreen version and had no issues with either picture or sound quality. The disc features ten deleted scenes with optional director commentary, a commentary track featuring Polson, Bradford and Christensen and a short making of featurette.
While this film is not great it may be worth a watch with a big bowl of popcorn.
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Great Movie!
Added 9/2/2009
Before I start, I'm tired of hearing all of these reviewers yelling Fatal Attraction! referring to the movie. Like we KNow!!!!!! That being said, the movie should be a cult classic because of how it starts and then turns out. Ben (our hero) has some pool sex with Madison (psycho new girl) and then she says "still friends right?" "you're not gonna tell anyone are you?" Ben looking lost and dumb as ever is like "no-no- im not gonna tell anyone." The very next day at school, its on!!!! He starts getting subtle hints on his locker that its not over and they are more than friends. He cheated and there is pretty much no way out! It gets worse as Madison befriends all of his friends, his girlfriend, his moms, and goes out with his best friend Josh. She gets him fired from his job at the Hospital, should I keep going? This is a cult classic because just 4 words out of Ben's mouth ended his career..."what u wanna do?" lol and he looks so dumb and lost saying it as Madison grins an evil grin.....I knew it was over and he told her he had a girl, he did!!!! I can appreciate this movie because I can relate to Ben even though it didn't go as far thank goodness. Must see this movie! Its only like $0.01 now so what do you have to lose? I'm waiting for this to come out on blu-ray!
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"Very Suspenseful!"
Added 7/10/2009
"Swimfan" is actually the teen version of "Fatal Attraction" in which a good-looking swim jock, engaged to a cute simple creature, sleeps with another girl unbeknownst to him who is a psycho. Once this psycho realizes she can never have the jock she goes out of her way to destroy him and his girlfriend. I was actually surprised how good this film was. Jesse Bradford is breathtaking to look at and Erika Christensen portrays the role of the psycho to perfection. The movie had a lot of exciting moments and the message of it is clear: if you play around you can get burned.
The DVD features 10 deleted scenes, audio commentary by the stars and director John Polson, and a wonderful featurette "The Girlfriend From Hell".
The Associated Press calls "Swimfan" a "creepy thriller".
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