- Release Date: 1996
- Runtime: 116 min
- Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
- Starring: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo ... see all
- Director: Tony Scott
- Plot: Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst... Read more
User Reviews
yay reznor
Jul 07, 2008
stephen_randles - yahoo.com
Jul 07, 2008stephen_randles - yahoo.com
I'm in the process of watching this movie for the first time and the one thing that stands out for me enough to sign up and write a review is constant use of Nine Inch Nails music throughout the movie. Deniro... Full review
Just amazing
Jun 10, 2008
madeline7342 - yahoo.com
Jun 10, 2008madeline7342 - yahoo.com
Im shocked that no-one has mentioned this film as De Niro's finest work, as without a doubt it is, forget your Goodfella's this show is a must see. The acting I questioned when Wesley Snips was elected but as the film... Full review
Flashy treatment can only take this material so far...
May 23, 2008
moonspinner55 - imdb.com
May 23, 2008moonspinner55 - imdb.com
Robert De Niro as yet another crack-pot: this time, he's a baseball-obsessed knife salesman fixated on Wesley Snipes, the new $40 million pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. Based on the book by Peter Abrahams, the picture begins as a... Full review
Death of a salesman
Apr 08, 2008
jotix100 - imdb.com
Apr 08, 2008jotix100 - imdb.com
Gil Renard's passion for baseball consumes him. In fact, the sport he loves seems to get the best of him. His own marriage has failed dismally; he is involved in an acrimonious divorce and his son seems to have taken... Full review
lucky tie, lucky guy...
Feb 09, 2008
coreyno1 - imdb.com
Feb 09, 2008coreyno1 - imdb.com
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to... Full review
Underrated. DeNiro plays another great S.O.B
Nov 23, 2007
DarthVoorhees - imdb.com
Nov 23, 2007DarthVoorhees - imdb.com
The Fan is the polar opposite of Field of Dreams and I loved it. Baseball movies have no spine to them whatsoever, they tend to all ways follow the same Pride of the Yankees formula where Baseball is a fraternal... Full review
de niro y snipe
Jun 22, 2007
bebetrinidad - yahoo.com
Jun 22, 2007bebetrinidad - yahoo.com
me encanta las peliculas que tengan que ver con baseball.no es una de las mejores de baseball pero con robert de niro y wesley snipe hay que tenerla y verla... Full review
hard body
Apr 22, 2007
snapple180 - yahoo.com
Apr 22, 2007snapple180 - yahoo.com
I loved the movie preferably Wesley Snipes rock hard body! He is one scrumptious hunk of dark chocolate man! But the movie was well casted and kept us (the audience) gunning for me. I didn't what to expect!... Full review
De Niro is crazy
Jun 28, 2006
Blackjack_Zero526 - yahoo.com
Jun 28, 2006Blackjack_Zero526 - yahoo.com
But wesley snipes as the fourty million dollar player and john leguizamo as the low life agent... yea i don't think so.... Full review
Not very good.
Mar 13, 2006
wannabetaxidriver - yahoo.com
Mar 13, 2006wannabetaxidriver - yahoo.com
Just long and unpleasent. There seems to be no point to it. If you want to see a good baseball movie with De Niro, see Bang the Drum Slowly. If you want to see a good movie where he's crazy see... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Oct 28, 1996Los Angeles Times
While calling anything about this film promising is a mistake, "The Fan" is least objectionable in the early going when it sets up its characters, especially baseball star Bobby Rayburn (played with the appropriate swagger by Snipes), a perfectionist whose .
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| Aug 16, 1996Deseret News
Let's hope so, because, while there may be worse movies this year than this violent but boring thriller, it still could be the nadir of De Niro's career.
The Fan" is rated R for a constant stream of obscenities coming from De Niro, violence, gore and partial nudity in a bar scene.
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| Aug 16, 1996San Francisco Chronicle
But the movie fails in some key ways.
But on the whole his ambitious attack helps make ``The Fan'' entertaining in the moment, even if it's forgettable immediately afterward.
A feisty, appealing Ellen Barkin is a sports-radio talk-show host.
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| Aug 01, 1996Palo Alto Online
The Fan" is an unusual combination of thriller, B-grade menacing psycho film, and a hip TV commercial..... ... Full Review
filmcritic.com
The most fun to watch are De Niro and Snipes, who turn in very believable performances en route to the film's big finish.
- that none of the characters are remotely likable
... Full Review
News
Review: Big Fan, Microscopic Life
eonline.com –
2009-08-28
Blowing our own trumpet
telegraph.co.uk –
2009-02-20
'I'M NOT obsessed with it or anything," answers Robert De Niro's Gil Renard when his baseball player idol Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) asks him whether he's interested in the game, in Tony Scott's The Fan . ... Full Article
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The Fan - A Movie Review
associatedcontent.com –
2008-12-13
The Fan (1996) based on the novel by Peter Abrahams, is a psychological thriller where crazy fan goes to the extreme of murder to make sure that he favorite baseball player wins. ... Full Article
Fan to 'Tasia: "You Sho Iz ... Pretty"
tmz.com –
2008-02-11
Despite her unfortunate two-tone 'do and glamorous tat/gown combo, Fantasia Barrino still got some love from an admirer outside of Mr. Chow on Sunday. insertBCSinglePlayer(1413471473);With her run as Miss Celie in "The Color Purple" now over, maybe she'll get her... ... Full Article
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