{"id":30993,"date":"2023-05-02T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30993"},"modified":"2023-05-01T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:46:24","slug":"movie-report-frantic-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/movie-report-frantic-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Report: <i>Frantic<\/i> (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/frantic.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This is a 1988 film directed by Roman Polanski, filmed in France obvs because if he filmed in the United States he&#8217;d be arrested if he did.  Harrison Ford stars as a doctor whose wife <strike>is murdered<\/strike> (sorry, wrong movie) disappears from their hotel room in Paris.  She&#8217;d had trouble opening her suitcase, and when a call came in, she walked out while he was taking a shower.  Did she leave willingly or was she taken?  The search leads him to believe that it&#8217;s the latter.  Then the doctor comes across a woman whose bag the wife mistakenly took from the airport.  So it&#8217;s like <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/08\/movie-report-8-heads-in-a-duffel-bag-1997\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>8 Heads in a Duffel Bag<\/em><\/a> but in Paris, and ponderous because it&#8217;s directed by an auteur.<\/p>\n<p>They discover that the woman whose bag the wife had taken was not smuggling drugs as she had thought but instead had a MacGuffin, and rival governments were after it.  Once they get a hold of it, they exchange it for the wife, the government agents vying for the MacGuffin engage in a shootout, and all ends mostly well.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel bad about giving a bit of a spoiler alert there because if you&#8217;re going to watch this film, you&#8217;re watching it because you&#8217;re a big fan of Harrison Ford even though some of his film choices are questionable and didn&#8217;t age well.  Or you&#8217;re a fan of Roman Polanski.  Or maybe just a fan of the Barenaked Ladies, who did their bit to keep this film&#8217;s cultural relevance in 1998.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fC_q9KPczAg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But not high on my list of recommendations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 1988 film directed by Roman Polanski, filmed in France obvs because if he filmed in the United States he&#8217;d be arrested if he did. Harrison Ford stars as a doctor whose wife is murdered (sorry, wrong movie) disappears from their hotel room in Paris. She&#8217;d had trouble opening her suitcase, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30994,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions\/30994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}