The wife

you're so right. she is unattractive no sex appeal at all. maybe the producers meant her to look respectable cold fish but come on. contrast to the sexy french woman in the movie.

First of all, you would never have such a loving wife, all you deserve is a who*e.

And she was quite annoying in the beginning as well, especially after they got in the hotel room. Maybe that's why the movie got such a low rating - people wanted to see Walker and his wife separate or whatever at the end of the movie, the events that happened being the last droplet in the glass, and Walker walks away with the girl.

She was "Abby" Bradford, the stepmother on the 70's TV show "Eight is Enough". Remember all the daughters on that show were pretty "horsey" as well. Certainly not the most attractive Harrison Ford "wife".

I know I'm responding to your post a year later, but I agree. I liked Betty Buckley in Eight is Enough - I liked the daughters, too - but by this time she was a poor, poor match for the dashing and handsome Harrison Ford in this movie. She looked matronly and at least 10 years older than him. Not only that, but she wasn't as good-looking as he was. You know, he married below himself in looks? Sure, that's mean, and love is blind, but this is Hollywood, and you just flat out need a good-looking wife.




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Which is exactly why she was cast.

ok, first of all, Betty Buckley--the actress who plays Ford's wife in this film--is actually 5 years younger than him. That's what's known as an "age appropriate" relationship. It's how 90% of marriages are, in case you haven't heard, and it's one of the reasons the set-up for the plot to follow seems real.

The events in Frantic happen during a 24-hour period...if there had been a love scene between Ford and Seigner during his search for his wife, what would be the point of him looking for her in the first place if he's ready to bed the first French trollop he runs across? I think Polanski made just enough of an insinuation of their attraction during their dance scene in the disco when they almost kiss. That was sufficient.

And while Betty Buckley isn't a "10" in the looks department at her age, have any of you little boys ever checked out her figure? That woman is lean and mean and pretty well put together. I'd say from the neck down her body is the equal of Seigner's in this film. And for a man, when you've been married to a woman for many years, physically that's a major turn-on.



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