Swim fan

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Movie
German title Swim fan
Original title Swim fan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Polson
script Charles F. Bohl ,
Phillip Schneider
production Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. , John Penotti , Allison Lyon Segan
music Louis Febre
camera Giles Nuttgens
cut Sarah Flack
occupation

Swimfan (alternate spelling: Swimf @ n ) is a 2002 thriller directed by John Polson .

action

Ben Cronin is a student and a successful swimmer in high school . He also works in the hospital where his mother is employed and is in a relationship with his classmate Amy. Since Stanford University's talent scouts are also coming to a school swimming competition in 8 days , his trainer advises him to concentrate on swimming and train daily for the next few days.

A new student arrives at high school: Madison Bell. Since her parents are currently in Europe, she currently lives in the house of cousin Christopher Dante. Ben meets Madison when she cannot open her locker in the school hall and he opens it with her hair clip. They go to dinner together and in the evening to the swimming pool, where Ben teaches her to swim as she is a non-swimmer. In doing so, they get closer and sex occurs.

It's just a one-off affair for Ben and Madison seems very sensible when they break up and tells Ben that he should keep it to himself and that they can remain friends. In the following days, things get more and more uncomfortable for Ben, as Madison has befriended his friend Amy and attends their party, comes by with flowers for his mother's birthday, sends him nude photos of himself and sends him text messages, phone calls and emails bombed under the pseudonym "swimfan85".

When Ben tells her that she seems to have misunderstood something and that she should leave him alone, Madison gets together with Ben's swimming colleague, Josh, only to get closer to Ben. While working in the hospital, a patient went into cardiac arrest after he was apparently given the wrong medication from Ben. Ben is sure he checked the medication beforehand. He is sure that someone else must have switched the medication later and suspects Madison, but cannot prove anything. The hospital management fired Ben with immediate effect.

Ben now thinks about admitting the affair to his girlfriend, but here too Madison comes before her and the whole school now knows about his affair. On the day of the swimming competition, the next low blow for Ben follows: Before the competition, anabolic steroids were detected in a urine sample . He is then disqualified from the competition and excluded from the school's swim team.

Since Madison keeps calling Ben's name during intimacies with her new boyfriend Josh, Josh has had enough of her too and he leaves her. Shortly thereafter, Josh is found dead in the swimming pool. Killed with a baseball bat that was in Ben's locker, which had his fingerprints on. Ben is thus under suspicion of murder.

Ben is now secretly breaking into Madison's house to look for clues. He finds out that she works as a temporary worker at the hospital and finds a pack of anabolic steroids that has been opened. When Madison's cousin Christopher Dante meets him, he helps him and shows him the newspaper clippings she has collected about a Jake Donnelly. He was also a successful athlete and Madison's ex-boyfriend until he was killed in a car accident together and has been in a coma ever since.

In the meantime, Madison, disguised as Ben, sat in Ben's car with the help of a secret spare key and ran over his girlfriend Amy on her scooter. Amy comes to the hospital and the police look for Ben as the perpetrator.

Madison is in the hospital on her way to kill Amy for good when she sees someone dressed like her former boyfriend Jake Donnelly. She follows him into the underground car park and only there realizes that it is her cousin Christopher Dante who has lured her here. When Ben shows up, she confesses what she has done. Because a school friend of Ben's secretly filmed, Madison is arrested. On the way in the police car, Madison gets a gun in her hand, with which she shoots both police officers and escapes. In the police car she drives to Ben's apartment. There she knocks down Ben and his mother and kidnaps Amy. In the swimming pool, she handcuffed Amy to a chair and threw her into the water. Ben jumps after them and can only save Amy because he still had Madison's hair clip that he used to open her locker: he now opens the handcuffs and can fetch her from the bottom of the pool. When Madison tried to prevent this, she falls into the water herself and drowns because she cannot swim. Ben is rehabilitated and in the end can reconcile with his girlfriend Amy.

background

  • The plot is reminiscent of A Fateful Affair from 1987 - transferred to teenagers and a high school setting. However, it is not an official remake.
  • In the film, Madison is nicknamed "SwimFan85" on the Internet. Swimfan85 was also the working title of the film during the shooting, and the film also had this film title in its early trailers. The number 85 (which should stand for the year of birth of the character Madison in the film) was finally removed from the film title so that the film would not be so obviously limited to a certain time.
  • Production costs have been estimated to be between $ 8.5 million and $ 10 million. The film grossed around 34 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around 28 million US dollars in the USA and around 60,000 US dollars in Germany.
  • It was released on September 6, 2002 in the US and on May 15, 2003 in Germany.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : “ Solidly staged drama about guilt and atonement. The film takes its topic seriously within the framework of the genre conventions, but ultimately it lacks an individual profile. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0283026/business
  2. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=swimfan.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?wert=520452&sucheNach=titel

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