Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11380 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-10-25
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Romanian, Bulgarian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Living in exile in Paris after eluding a controversial charge of statutory rape in America, director Roman Polanski seemed professionally adrift during the 1980s, making only one film (the ill-fated Pirates) between 1979 and 1988. Then Polanski found inspiration--and a major star in Harrison Ford--to make Frantic, a thriller that played directly into Polanski's gift for creating an atmosphere of mystery, dread, escalating suspense and uncertain fate. Set in Paris (Polanski couldn't go to Hollywood, so Hollywood came to him), the story begins when an American heart surgeon (Ford) arrives in the City of Lights with his wife (Betty Buckly) for a medical convention. They check into a posh hotel, and in a brilliantly directed scene, Ford takes a shower and emerges to find that his wife has vanished. This mysterious disappearance--and a confusion between two identical pieces of luggage--leads Ford into the Paris underground and a plot that grows increasingly dangerous as he approaches the truth of his wife's disappearance. The plot of Frantic gets too complicated, and the pace drops off in the cluttered second half, but in Polanski's capable hands the film is blessed with moments of heightened suspense in the tradition of classic thrillers. --Jeff Shannon

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
French\Italian
English\Italian
English
Region 2
Dolby Surround English French Italian
Dolby Surround
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Arabic\Bulgarian\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Romanian\Spanish

Synopsis
An American heart surgeon is thrust into the adventure of a lifetime when he arrives in Paris for a top convention and his wife vanishes. His search for her leads him into the underworld where he forges an alliance with a beautiful woman who holds the key to the mystery.

Customer Reviews

Under-rated film
I've seen several reviews for this film over the years, most feeling Frantic is average and carried by Harrison Ford's usual strong character performance. The film itself is better than simply relying on Ford. The Parisian atmosphere and loneliness of an American struggling against stubborn authorities (not just French) to find his kidnapped wife. His only help is a temptuous French girl involved in illegal trafficing and Ford's character's own battle falling for the girl but facing upto his love for his wife forms a subtle backdrop. I've always liked this film, and it makes for a good evenings viewing which draws you in scene by scene.

fantastic
drama of the highest quality,from start to finish frantic keeps the viewer enthralled,twisting and turning until the tragic ending.ford delights as the frustrated husband searching for his lost wife in a foreign city,finally finding hope in michelle,before being reunited with his spouse.three things make this film,paris,michelle and finally ford frustrated beyond belief at each turn of the way.he as always comes across as mr.dependable but also shows his vunerable side no more so than the scene in the night club.
all i can say is see this film,top class acting,top class drama.

Classic mystery.
With Harrison Ford as the star and Roman Polanski directing there's no way you can have anything but a masterpiece on your hands. Frantic starts simply enough with Harrison Ford and his wife checking in to a hotel in Paris. They realise they've picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport and in no time at all Ford's wife has vanished. The genius of the movie is that the hero is just another guy and he is as baffled by it all as we are. There are no huge Die Hard style gun fights and no James Bondesque ridiculous stunts. The realism in the movie makes it a lot more suspenseful and Harrison Ford, as always, is absolutely brilliant at playing the average guy in a screwed up situation. The film is similar in that respect to the great North By Northwest. Roman Polanski has made some excellent movies but I find this to be the most outright enjoyable of the lot. Frantic is one of the greatest thrillers ever made.