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Swimfan
(Fox Home Entertainment)
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| DVD
Release Date:
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March
11, 2003
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Length:
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85 mins.
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| Rated:
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PG-13
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Widescreen (2.35:1)
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Audio:
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English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby
Surround
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English, Spanish, Closed-Captioned
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| Extras:
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Audio
Commentary with Director John Polson and Actors Jesse Bradford
and Erika Christensen, Deleted/Extended Scenes with Optional
Director’s Commentary, "Girlfriend From Hell"
Featurette, 28 Days Later Trailer
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A fatal attraction for teens is how
Swimfan tries to market itself in its own promos. After a one-night
stand with the new student Madison (Erika Christensen), Ben (Jesse
Bradford) ends up having his life turned upside down by her.
Swimfan is a mediocre movie at best. There were parts of the movie I
didn't really buy, like why Ben would cheat on his girlfriend (Shiri
Appleby), who they set up as so important in his life, without a real
explanation other than he has trouble saying no. Plus, Shiri is way
hotter than Erika, in my opinion. And Madison's whole motivation for
her behaviour wasn't really explained either.
As far as extras, there is a featurette about the "Girlfriend
from Hell", basically giving us comments from the principles of
the movie about Madison and her psycho behaviour. Not that
interesting. There are 10 deleted/extended scenes, with optional
commentary from director John Polson. Polson tells us how he loved all
the scenes and the reasons they were shortened. Finally, there is a
commentary featuring Polson, Christensen and Bradford. They manage to
not have any silent moments in the commentary, with Polson giving
informative tips about Swimfan and Bradford trying to crack jokes
about everything going on.
Swimfan isn't really that creepy for the thriller that it's supposed
to be. Maybe it works better on a teen audience. From now on, I think
I will be sticking to the raunchy comedies when it comes to teen
flicks.
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4.5/10 |
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5/10 |
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| Recommendation: |
See
It If It's Free |
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