Swimfan is slickly-made and technically well-crafted, but its all in the service of a Bugsy Malone version of Fatal Attraction, whose target audience was born the year Adrian Lynnes movie came out. In keeping with the original, The Blonde is cunning-but-psychotic, The Brunette is wholesome-but-bland and The Hunky Guy gets caught up in a number of increasingly silly situations. You see, Madison (Erika Christensen) is a teenage psycho who wants revenge on Ben (Jesse Bradford) for being dumped, so she gives him steroids without his knowledge. When Bens urine tests positive for drugs, hes thrown off the school swimming team forever. It used to be a truism of Bad Movies that only beautiful people had great sex, but Swimfan goes one better: they also live in the finest neighbourhoods, attend the best schools and only listen to bland and inoffensive pop songs. If youre looking for the spawn of Fatal Attraction and Friends, this is it.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
