Frantic

In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.

• Director: Roman Polanski
• Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:120 minutes

Cast

Harrison Ford : Dr. Richard Walker
Betty Buckley : Sondra Walker
Emmanuelle Seigner : Michelle
Djiby Soumare : Taxi Driver
Dominique Virton : Desk Clerk

Harrison Ford plays Dr. Richard Walker, a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife for a medical conference. At their hotel his wife is unable to open her suitcase and Walker determines that she has picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower his wife mysteriously disappears from their hotel room. Still jet-lagged, he searches for her in the hotel with the help of a polite but mostly indifferent staff, then wanders outside to look further on his own. A wino overhears him in a café and tells Walker he saw his wife being forced into a car. Walker is sceptical until he finds his wife’s ID bracelet on the cobblestones. He contacts the Paris police and the US embassy but their responses are bureaucratic and there is little hope anyone will look for her. As Walker carries on the search himself (with input from a very sympathetic but wary desk clerk at the hotel) he stumbles onto a murder scene and then encounters the streetwise young Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner) who mistakenly picked up his wife’s suitcase at the airport. It transpires that she is a career smuggler but does not know for whom she is working. She reluctantly helps Walker in his increasingly frantic attempt to learn what was in the switched suitcase and to trade whatever it is for the return of his wife.

It turns out that hidden within a small replica of the Statue of Liberty is a krytron, a small electronic switch used in the detonators of nuclear devices. The film ends with a confrontation beside the River Seine where the terrorists release Walker’s wife. However, a firefight ensues between the terrorists and American agents, and Michelle is killed in the crossfire. Angry and upset, Walker throws the krytron into the river. Read more

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