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6.0When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Released: 1996-08-15116 minDir: Tony ScottThriller, Action, DramaBudget: $55.0MBox office: $18.6M
Cast
- Robert De Niro as Gil Renard
- Wesley Snipes as Bobby Rayburn
- Ellen Barkin as Jewel Stern
- John Leguizamo as Manny
- Benicio del Toro as Juan Primo
- Patti D'Arbanville as Ellen Renard
Themes
- sports
- psychotic
- luck
- child custody
- baseball pitcher
- baseball fan
- psychotic fan
- driving range
- steam room
- angry
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
52,838 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
38%
Metacritic
32/100
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sport
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- baseball
- Director
- Tony Scott
- Screenwriter
- Frank Darabont
- Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Producer
- Wendy Finerman
- Production company
- TriStar Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Dariusz Wolski
- Narrative location
- San Francisco
- Filming location
- San Francisco
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 691998
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Sport
- baseball
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- publication date
- 1996-01-01
- title
- The Fan
- after a work by
- Peter Abrahams
- film editor
- Claire Simpson
- executive producer
- Barrie M. Osborne
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 37%
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