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The Fan
1996
· Movie
· 116 min
D
MEANRANK
51/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5192
- IMDb #4724
- Rotten Tomatoes #4371
- Metacritic #4443
- Letterboxd #3931
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4222
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4801
- Metacritic Critics #4705
- Metacritic Audience #3455
- Criticker #3362
- Kinopoisk #2809
- AlloCiné #4063
- Trakt #4609
Every rating
31–69
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 31, highest is Kinopoisk on 69. Critics average 37, everyone else 54.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An obsessive baseball fan becomes dangerously fixated on his favorite team's new star player. When the player's performance begins to slump, the fan's admiration curdles into rage. He begins to stalk the player and interfere in his life, believing he is "helping" him, but his actions escalate into violence and murder.
Details
- Director
- Tony Scott
- Writer
- Phoef Sutton
- Based on
- The Fan by Peter Abrahams
- Released
- 15 August 1996
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $55.0M
- Box office
- $18.6M
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