C

The Color of Night (1995)

Rated R

140 Minutes (Director's Cut)

Director - Richard Rush

Budget - $40,000,000

Box Office - $19,750,470

The $40,000,000 budget should disqualify this from being a Frank Movie, but since it only made half of that back at the box office, I'm going to make an exception.  It was one of the Top 20 most rented movies of 1995, so I clearly am not the only person who found this film compelling.  It did, however, win The Razzie for Worst Film of 1995.

Reasons that it's a Frank Movie:

1.  Maxim magazine named this the best sex scenes in film history.  That seems to be the recurring theme with this list, but, really, it's just front-loaded in the alphabet.  I swear.  Anyway, here's the list:

http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/reframe.html?http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/pop/12_00/12_06a.html

2.  Great car chase. 

I'm a sucker for good movie car chases, and this definitely has one.  A 95 Mercedes vs a 78 Pontiac Trans Am.  The streets of Orange County.  I'll take it.  See for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0L5XB6nY50

The migrant worker in the back of the POS pickup.  The random old lady with the grocery cart full of watermelons.  The car carrier as a projectile.  Very cool.

3.  Best use of a rattlesnake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmZ9PwQkvCs

'nuff said.

Here's Ebert.  He did not like it:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/color-of-night-1994


Runner-up: The Crush (1993)

Reason that it's a Frank Movie:

1.  Before the Aerosmith videos, there was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQpnYZeWW0

2.  Alicia Silverstone uses wasps as a weapon.  Awesome.

Honorable mentions:  City Hall (1996), Coming To America (1988), Consenting Adults (1992).