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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''The Fan's'' Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) is in a league all his own. A hard-core devotee of the San Francisco Giants, Gil doesn't limit himself to wearing team colors and cursing the umpire. If need be, he'll kill for a winning season. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) and Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) are both divorced fathers of sons who share a passion for the great pastime of baseball. And that's where the similarities end. Renard is a white, frustrated knife salesman (yes, a ''knife'' salesman) for whom baseball has become more a philosophy than a sport. ''Baseball's better than life,'' he tells his son at one point. ''Baseball's fair.'' Rayburn, conversely, is a baseball sensation, the San Francisco Giants' newly signed $40 million superstar, a man who appears to have virtually everything going for him--except his lucky number 11, which belongs to the team's Latin superstar, Juan Primo (Benicio Del Toro). more...
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