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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 6, 1998
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney & Emmanuelle Seigner | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Composition by | Ennio Morricone |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
...a solid, consistently entertaining piece of work that boasts a typically stellar performance from Harrison Ford.
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Reel Film Reviews
[An] energetic and often light-hearted thriller.
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Film4
Vintage Polanski.
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Washington Post
It's a film about ordinary people put in unordinary circumstances pressed to extraordinary levels, and the film itself becomes extraordinary by the effort.
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United Press International
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There are so many good things in Frantic that one feels irritated the movie as a whole isn't better than it is. It's certainly miles better than Polanski's most recent effort, the disastrous Pirates, but not as good as it should be.
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Newhouse News Service
...An elegant, icy thriller....[The film] shows us a brilliant filmmaker using some of the best tricks in his deadly arsenal...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
[Polanski] has succeeded in picking up the clever, unnerving thread of his earlier career.
New York Times
Product Description:
Roman Polanski's FRANTIC is an engaging thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock. Harrison Ford plays Richard Walker, an American heart surgeon vacationing with his wife, Sondra (Betty Buckley), in Paris, where he is to attend a medical convention. Sondra suddenly and unexpectedly disappears from the couple's hotel room while Richard is taking a shower, and when she doesn't return after several hours, he decides to report the incident. But neither the French police nor the U.S. embassy offers much help or even appears particularly interested in his dilemma. On the brink of despair, Walker decides to embark on an investigation himself, aided by Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a carefree, seductive gamine who is also mixed up in the case, as he discovers after tracing back to her a mysterious piece of switched luggage that he suspects his wife's kidnappers are after. When the mismatched duo finally succeed in tracking down the perpetrators, it becomes apparent that the stakes in this extortion scheme are far higher than they imagined. Ford, cast somewhat against type, gives a credible, low-key performance as the anxious Walker. Polanski also cowrote this suspenseful film, assigning the female lead to his young wife (Seigner).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 112,866
- UPC: 085391178729
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