"So long, vacation. Hello, spellbinding suspense! After his wife mysteriously disappears in Paris, American Richard Walker (Harrison Ford) confronts a bewildering web of language, locale and bureaucracy as he scrambles to find her in Frantic. Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) helms the edge-of-your-seat thriller. From Scott Turow's bestseller, Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men, The Pelican Brief) directs the twist-filled whod ..."
"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 ..."