The Fan Page #2

Synopsis: 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. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Tony Scott
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
32
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
1996
116 min
771 Views


...we've had a lot of whining...

...about product quality from certain

members of our sales force.

Example:
The two Jima line.

Gil, do you see

any quality problems there?

Blade's too thin, pommel's too light,

and there's a half tang hidden in there.

Maybe that's why you're not selling.

Sweet.

Somebody made a mistake, man.

I wear number 11.

- I'm sorry. I didn't know.

- It's cool. Manny, just handle it.

Me? I think this knife's an asskicker.

This door, on the other hand,

comes off a foreign car.

Well, need I say more?

- Why are you guys still here?

- There's been a glitch, okay?

- I'm working on it.

- What's a "glitch"?

A detail that hasn't been worked out.

Permutation that happens in...

What? With my number?

- Yeah, with your number.

- No, no, no.

Manny, you know I wear number 11.

- Of course.

- So there shouldn't be any problem.

It is a problem. Primo wears 11.

Tickets in yet?

Tickets? What tickets?

- Opening day.

- You got other things to worry about.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Gil. You

came this close to kissing pavement.

- How about that close?

- Yeah.

Management had you on the list.

I talked them out of it.

Don't make me regret it.

- Thanks, master.

- Okay, f*** it.

I'm not playing with number 33.

You understand?

I know. Just be cool.

Let me take care of it.

Three times 11 is 33.

You may play three- times better.

Thanks. I'll talk to you in a minute.

Jesus was 33 when he died.

People still talk about him.

- Give me my number.

- Think about it, seriously.

Should I fire him?

I should fire him, huh?

I should fire his butt.

Good form.

Seriously. I promised those tickets

to my clients.

Don't make me look

like an a**hole. Please.

- I do have a reputation to uphold.

- A reputa...

Jesus-f***ing"..."

Nobody cares. You're stuck in a

time warp with your head up your ass.

- Why, because I don't wanna sell crap?

- We are not dedicated to perfection!

People don't want quality.

They want cheap product.

When that fucks up, they want to

replace it, so that's what we give them.

You got till the end of the month, Gil.

Look...

...McKinley and Everest is our

biggest account. You better close on it.

Bring in the f***ing numbers.

A**hole.

Sid, what was the missing link

on your ball club last season?

We'd have made the playoffs if Rayburn

hadn't hit that three- run shot in Atlanta.

Everybody said, "Why don't we

have a slugger like that?" Now we do.

- Bobby, a picture?

- Why don't we take one with Primo.

- Sounds good.

- Keep smiling.

Keep f***ing smiling.

- I hope you like it in centre field.

- Yeah, I hope you like it in left.

No more questions.

2.5 million signing bonus.

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Phoef Sutton

Robert Christopher Sutton (born September 11, 1958) is an American writer and producer. His film credits include Mrs. Winterbourne and The Fan, both released in 1996. Phoef — the first name that he uses both personally and professionally — is pronounced "feef", and was a childhood nickname given to him in infancy by his brothers. A 1981 graduate of James Madison University, Sutton began his career writing scripts for Newhart. He later became executive producer of and a writer for Cheers. He collaborated with Bob Newhart again on the 1992 TV series Bob and worked as a creative consultant on 90s TV series Almost Perfect and NewsRadio. With Mark Jordan Legan he wrote and produced the cult comedy series Thanks about the Pilgrims' first years in America and co-wrote a 2017 episode of Kevin Can Wait. He was also the showrunner and producer for the NBC series The Fighting Fitzgeralds and the American version of Coupling. In 1999, he published the novel Always Six O'Clock. In 2012 he published the novel The Dead Man: The Midnight Special and The Dead Man: Reborn. In May 2015, his novel Fifteen Minutes to Live was published by Brash Books. His other novels include Crush, and the two sequels Heart Attack & Vine and Colorado Boulevard, as well as two books co-authored with Janet Evanovich: Wicked Charms and Curious Minds. From 2005 to 2009, Sutton was a consulting producer for Boston Legal. In 2010, Sutton became a staff writer on the FX series Terriers starring Donal Logue. He was also a writer and consulting producer on the Rob Schneider sitcom Rob, the SyFy Channel series Defiance and the showrunner and writer for the TV Land original sitcom The Soul Man, among many other TV and film credits. He is an adviser to the American Shakespeare Center. more…

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