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Name: The Fan
Released: 1996-8-16
Cast: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro

The Fan

R
1h 57m
1996

37%

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When the San Francisco Giants pay center fielder Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan Gil Renard (Robert De Niro). So when Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard stops at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory... not even murder.

Director:

Tony Scott

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

37%

Critics Consensus: Tony Scott's visceral flash proves to be an ill fit for The Fan, a queasy tale of obsession that succeeds at making audiences uncomfortable, but strikes out when it comes to delivering the thrills.

Reviews

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Ed Travis

Tony Scott's energetic direction is the outstanding element of The Fan. The guy just makes this otherwise standard fare really pop.

What's disingenuous about Scott's movie is that it pretends to have something to say about an all-too-familiar syndrome.

Scott, as ever, drowns the still, sad music of humanity in an oratorio of style. The screeching soundtrack never relents and the heavily top-lit images, sometimes using garish tints and slow motion, flash at us with all the feeling of a rock video.

...a lesser entry within Scott's exceedingly erratic filmography.

A roughly-assembled, mean movie: flashes of solid genre filmmaking keep it from being a wash, but it's really not much fun at all.

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