Reception
Frantic was a critical success, but was a disappointment at the box office, failing to recoup its production budget. The film received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert on the TV show Siskel & Ebert and The Movies. Pat Collins of WWOR-TV called it "Polanski's best film ever."
This was Polanski's third film in the ten years following his 1977 conviction for statutory rape and subsequent fleeing of the United States; it is arguably his most Hollywood-oriented film of that period. The low box office returns in the United States was attributed to audiences showing distaste for Polanski, not as a director so much as a person.
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