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The Fan: Directed by Tony Scott. With Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo. An all-star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of an obsessive salesman.
The Fan (1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
An all-star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of an obsessive salesman. Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that.
A flawed movie, but worth seeing for De Niro's performance as Gil Renard, an increasingly crazed fan/stalker. Also, yet again, baseball shows itself as the sport most able to provide striking visual metaphors for the ups and downs of life (though, as a Brit, I've noted some of the specific criticisms aimed at the baseball sequences in this ...
Gil Renard : [Gil narrating his poem] Excited and anxious, I await my dream / To escape, applaud and embrace my team / Opening day I always can trust / It's just for this high that I crazily lust / Return of our hero does brighten the days / Just briefly my troubles get lost in the haze / The grace from the field arouses the crowd / Reflects on ...
The Fan: Directed by Tony Scott. With Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo. An all-star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of an obsessive salesman.
Tony Scott turned down The Rock (1996) to direct this film. Cal Ripken, who served as a consultant on the film, recalled in Sports Illustrated having lunch with Robert De Niro, with De Niro asking him about the Red Sox fans.
The Fan: Directed by Ed Bianchi. With Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton, Hector Elizondo. Douglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones.
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. Written by Theodore A. Metz & Joe Hayden. Published by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Hymn of the Big Wheel. Written by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall (as Grantley Marshall), Andrew Vowles (as Andrew Vowles), Horace Andy & Neneh Cherry. Performed by Massive Attack.
The Fan: Directed by Tony Scott. With Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo. An all-star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of an obsessive salesman.
