La asistencia a una conferencia en París le brinda al doctor Richard Walken y a su esposa la oportunidad de revivir su luna de miel. Pero, nada más instalarse en la habitación del hotel, su mujer desaparece misteriosamente. Completamente solo, en un país desconocido cuyo idioma ignora, Walken la buscará desesperadamente. La única pista que tiene es un número de teléfono apuntado en una caja de cerillas, pero, a partir de ahí, la trama se irá complicando hasta convertirse en una auténtica pesadilla.
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Duración
120 min.
País
Estados Unidos
Director
Roman Polanski
Guión
Roman Polanski & Gérard Brach
Música
Ennio Morricone
Fotografía
Witold Sobocinski
Reparto
Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney, Alexandra Stewart, Robert Barr, David Huddleston
Productora
Coproducción USA-Francia; Warner Bros. Pictures / The Mount Company
120 min.
País
Estados Unidos
Director
Roman Polanski
Guión
Roman Polanski & Gérard Brach
Música
Ennio Morricone
Fotografía
Witold Sobocinski
Reparto
Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney, Alexandra Stewart, Robert Barr, David Huddleston
Productora
Coproducción USA-Francia; Warner Bros. Pictures / The Mount Company
Harrison Ford thought that "Frantic" was a misleading title for the film as the script didn't have a frantic pace. He suggested that "Moderately Disturbed" would be a more appropriate title. Roman Polanski wasn't amused.
Due to studio pressure, 15 minutes were trimmed from the original running time and a new ending was shot.
Interviewed on August 2nd, 2015 in Paris before an outdoor screening of Búsqueda frenética (1988), actress Emmanuelle Seigner said she didn't know who star Harrison Ford was at the time the film was shot. Seigner said that she was only nineteen years of age and from a theater family. When she was further asked about Ford, she described him as being nice to everyone. She also mentioned that he was very protective of her, revealing that he had a second set of pedals installed in her car for use in the making of the movie. This was due to his concern about the young Seigner's driving ability.
Director Roman Polanski and actress Emmanuelle Seigner, after working together on this film, were married on August 30th, 1989.
Director Roman Polanski returned to the Parisian city thriller milieu with this movie around twelve years after his earlier Paris set thriller film El inquilino (1976).
At the 2003 Oscars it was Harrison Ford who announced the Best Director category and eventual win by Roman Polanski, and even visited Polanski to deliver the award in France since the director couldn't fly to the U.S.
The Krytron prop has "RP & GB" printed on it below the nuclear symbol. These are the initials of the screenwriters: Roman Polanski and Gerard Brach.
The first collaboration of director Roman Polanski and actress Emmanuelle Seigner.
The song played throughout the movie is "I've Seen That Face Before", a single by Grace Jones released in 1981. It is a reworking of Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango". The track, however, did not make it onto the film's accompanying soundtrack album.
Sondra Walker's passport has her photograph with a huge, ear-to-ear smile. Passports traditionally didn't use photos of people smiling. In 1991, the U.S. government allowed people to smile, but they couldn't show their teeth.
Because actress Betty Buckley was committed to working on this movie, she was unable to be in Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion (1987).
When Roman Polanski visited the Netherlands Film Academy in 1988, then-freshman, Cyrus Frisch asked why he chose to make a bad film like Frantic. Polanski replied "A human can be like a river. Wild and energetic at first. But eventually drying out."
Kevin Costner, Nick Nolte and William Hurt were considered for the leading role.
The building visible from the Walkers' hotel room is the Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, the famous Paris opera house designed by and named after the architect Charles Garnier.
Patrick Floersheim and Alexandra Stewart previously appeared in The Marseille Contract (1974).
SPOILERS
The original ending of the film was shown to a small test audience and subsequently changed to the happy ending in the final cut. Some audience members have reported that Walker's wife was a spy all along in the original ending. The studio made Polanski cut the running time and change the finale.
Cameo
Witold Sobocinski: the Polish cinematographer makes a brief cameo in the early bar scene where Dr. Walker is asking about his wife. Sobocinski sits to the far right of the frame.
Director Cameo
Roman Polanski: the taxi driver who hands over the matches to Dr. Walker. Also, his is the dubbed voice of the man in the tweed jacket who interrogates Michelle in her apartment.
Due to studio pressure, 15 minutes were trimmed from the original running time and a new ending was shot.
Interviewed on August 2nd, 2015 in Paris before an outdoor screening of Búsqueda frenética (1988), actress Emmanuelle Seigner said she didn't know who star Harrison Ford was at the time the film was shot. Seigner said that she was only nineteen years of age and from a theater family. When she was further asked about Ford, she described him as being nice to everyone. She also mentioned that he was very protective of her, revealing that he had a second set of pedals installed in her car for use in the making of the movie. This was due to his concern about the young Seigner's driving ability.
Director Roman Polanski and actress Emmanuelle Seigner, after working together on this film, were married on August 30th, 1989.
Director Roman Polanski returned to the Parisian city thriller milieu with this movie around twelve years after his earlier Paris set thriller film El inquilino (1976).
At the 2003 Oscars it was Harrison Ford who announced the Best Director category and eventual win by Roman Polanski, and even visited Polanski to deliver the award in France since the director couldn't fly to the U.S.
The Krytron prop has "RP & GB" printed on it below the nuclear symbol. These are the initials of the screenwriters: Roman Polanski and Gerard Brach.
The first collaboration of director Roman Polanski and actress Emmanuelle Seigner.
The song played throughout the movie is "I've Seen That Face Before", a single by Grace Jones released in 1981. It is a reworking of Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango". The track, however, did not make it onto the film's accompanying soundtrack album.
Sondra Walker's passport has her photograph with a huge, ear-to-ear smile. Passports traditionally didn't use photos of people smiling. In 1991, the U.S. government allowed people to smile, but they couldn't show their teeth.
Because actress Betty Buckley was committed to working on this movie, she was unable to be in Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion (1987).
When Roman Polanski visited the Netherlands Film Academy in 1988, then-freshman, Cyrus Frisch asked why he chose to make a bad film like Frantic. Polanski replied "A human can be like a river. Wild and energetic at first. But eventually drying out."
Kevin Costner, Nick Nolte and William Hurt were considered for the leading role.
The building visible from the Walkers' hotel room is the Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, the famous Paris opera house designed by and named after the architect Charles Garnier.
Patrick Floersheim and Alexandra Stewart previously appeared in The Marseille Contract (1974).
SPOILERS
The original ending of the film was shown to a small test audience and subsequently changed to the happy ending in the final cut. Some audience members have reported that Walker's wife was a spy all along in the original ending. The studio made Polanski cut the running time and change the finale.
Cameo
Witold Sobocinski: the Polish cinematographer makes a brief cameo in the early bar scene where Dr. Walker is asking about his wife. Sobocinski sits to the far right of the frame.
Director Cameo
Roman Polanski: the taxi driver who hands over the matches to Dr. Walker. Also, his is the dubbed voice of the man in the tweed jacket who interrogates Michelle in her apartment.
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