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Released
1988 · FILM

Frantic

An American doctor races through a bewildering Paris of language barriers, apathetic police and endless bureaucracy to locate his vanished wife, confronting a mysterious woman who holds the key to her disappearance.

“Danger. Desire. Desperation.”

Directed by
Roman Polanski, Yves Baigneres
Written by
Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
120 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When his wife disappears in Paris, an American doctor embarks on a search that leads him through a confusing maze of language barriers, unfamiliar settings, indifferent police, bureaucratic red tape requiring triplicate forms, and a young woman who is both defiant and enigmatic, withholding more than she reveals.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 143+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sam O SteenShot by Witold SobocinskiScored by Ennio MorriconeDesigned by Pierre GuffroySound by Jean Francois AugerCostumes by Anthony Powell Nm0694018VFX by Frederic Moreau

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$17.6M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$17.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.4M — 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.8M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,101 theaters

Also known as

  • (English)Frantic
  • (Bulgarian)Безумецът
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United KingdomFeb 19, 1988
  • CanadaFeb 26, 1988
  • United StatesFeb 26, 1988
  • FranceMar 30, 1988
  • NorwayMay 31, 1988

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., The Mount Company (II)
DistributionWarner Bros. Finland, Warner Bros.
Other companiesCinecam, Elektra Records, Euro-Titres, Forum Studio, S.I.S.

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