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Swimfan
Stars:
Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri
Appleby, Kate Burton, and Dan Hedaya
Writers:
Charles Bohl and Phillip Schneider
Director:
John Polson
Feature
length: 85 minutes
Extras:
Commentary, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary, Featurette, Trailer
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and French and Spanish Language Dolby
Surround Sound
Subtitles:
English Captions and Closed Captions and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 20
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Surround Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 2002/DVD Release: 2003
Theatrical
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Home
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG-13
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“Swimfan” is teenage thriller about a high school swimming champ who almost loses
everything after one night of indiscretion with a psycho schoolgirl. The film
tries to sell itself as a “Fatal Attraction” for teenagers, but ultimately I
think teenagers will be more likely to rent out “Fatal Attraction” than take
this film seriously. Now if you have an open mind, “Swimfan” can be a great
film to heckle complete with lame acting, predictable storytelling, and a
villain who looks like she’d cause more trouble raiding a “Dunkin’
Donuts” shop than some high school jocks’ locker room. The film is
ridiculous, but bad enough to laugh at so if you’re looking for a cheap thrill
not to take seriously and maybe watch with a bunch of friends to share the
laughter, then “Swimfan” is worth a rental, but if you want to watch a real
thriller, there’s always “Fatal Attraction.”
Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment presents “Swimfan” on a DVD-10 with one side
containing an anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) aspect ratio and the other side
containing a pan and scan (1.33:1) aspect ratio presentation. Both transfers
feature solid and deep blues and reds with no color bleeding. Compression
artifacts and grain, such as in one locker room scene is kept to a minimum.
The English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtrack is fine with a few
effects like the sound of a beeper that jump right out and almost feel like
their happening in the room where one is watching this disc. French and Spanish
Language Subtitles and English Captions and Closed Captions for the hearing
impaired as well as Spanish Language Subtitles are encoded onto both film
presentations on this DVD as options.
Director
John Polson and Stars Jesse Bradford and Erika Christensen participate in a
feature length audio commentary track that is available for both aspect ratio
presentations on either side and to be blunt is only interesting if you really
care about this movie, and frankly I don’t care. The usual excuses are
provided for ten deleted and extended letterboxed (2.35:1) scenes (12:20)
commentary as an option with the Director. These scenes can be viewed
individually or as one reel. On the pan and scan side of the disc is a hokey
featurette entitled “The Girlfriend From Hell” (10:22) where Christensen
talks about her role in this movie as if it was the successor to “Fatal
Attraction.” Now granted “Fatal Attraction” is a bit overrated, but it is
still a hell of a lot better than this flick. If anything I found her words and
belief in them scarier than the feature film itself.
There’s
no trailer for “Swimfan,” but there was an interesting (1.85:1) teaser for
a film called “28 Days Later” (1:26) that looks like some post apocalyptic
thriller coming from Fox Searchlight Pictures.
It was the only element on this DVD I liked. The menus on both sides
feature a full motion main menu with animated transitions to standard
interactive still frames that are easy to navigate.
If
you’re still interested, “Swimfan” is available on DVD-Video now from
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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