A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences.A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences.A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences.
Kia Goodwin
- Rene
- (as Kia Joy Goodwin)
James DeBello
- Christopher Dante
- (as James Debello)
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- TriviaErika Christensen took cello lessons for three months prior to filming.
- GoofsThe letterman's jacket in Jake's room is spelled "Lions". Ben takes it from his room. When Christopher wears it at the hospital, it is now spelled "Lyons".
- Alternate versionsAccording to the BBFC the film was re-edited by UK distributor Icon. The new version runs ca. 40 sec. shorter but has the same rating (12A).
- ConnectionsEdited into Swimfan: Deleted Scenes (2003)
- SoundtracksToo Much Too Soon
Written by Ben Morton
Performed by Llama
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
Fatal Attraction with teenagers. And swimming.
This film succeeds because of Jesse Bradford. I remember him from Bring It On (another excellent performance), but it appears he's done lots of things. He's a great lead actor, and I can see him filling Tom Cruise / Ben Affleck style roles in a few years' time.
The film itself is a fairly respectable effort at a Fatal Attraction style relationship, with teen-thriller-genre elements of the misunderstood wierd guy, the new girl in town with a secret past, and so on. I can only think of one vaguely surprising moment (with Josh, in the pool) - otherwise it's fairly predictable, but enjoyable all the same.
Watching it, I couldn't help but wonder why the school's best swimmer and most attractive guy didn't have a bigger circle of friends (Josh the jock, Randy the drip, and a black girl with a chip on her shoulder (what an original character..).
Also, why would he be tempted by a girl who isn't quite as attractive (or as nice) as his girlfriend? - but I know that's often the case in real life, so I can let that go.
Finally, Jesse didn't need the whole 'troubled teen past' - in the places where it was used, it wasn't really necessary - and although I'm no fan of the family values lobby, I am thoroughly sick of the single-parent-family that seems to exist in every single movie these days. It's just a lazy way of adding to teen angst, and avoids the need to write convincing two-parent scenes.
Swimfan is fine, but is only really a stepping-stone movie onto bigger and (hopefully) better things for the lead actors.
The film itself is a fairly respectable effort at a Fatal Attraction style relationship, with teen-thriller-genre elements of the misunderstood wierd guy, the new girl in town with a secret past, and so on. I can only think of one vaguely surprising moment (with Josh, in the pool) - otherwise it's fairly predictable, but enjoyable all the same.
Watching it, I couldn't help but wonder why the school's best swimmer and most attractive guy didn't have a bigger circle of friends (Josh the jock, Randy the drip, and a black girl with a chip on her shoulder (what an original character..).
Also, why would he be tempted by a girl who isn't quite as attractive (or as nice) as his girlfriend? - but I know that's often the case in real life, so I can let that go.
Finally, Jesse didn't need the whole 'troubled teen past' - in the places where it was used, it wasn't really necessary - and although I'm no fan of the family values lobby, I am thoroughly sick of the single-parent-family that seems to exist in every single movie these days. It's just a lazy way of adding to teen angst, and avoids the need to write convincing two-parent scenes.
Swimfan is fine, but is only really a stepping-stone movie onto bigger and (hopefully) better things for the lead actors.
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- tenten76
- Aug 26, 2002
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- Also known as
- Tell Me You Love Me
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $28,564,995
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,326,601
- Sep 8, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $34,411,240
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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