Frank DeTorre

Frank DeTorre is the overarching protagonist of the 2001 Warner Bros. hybrid film where a portion of the movie takes place inside his body. Frank is a zookeeper living with in Rhode Island with his brother, Bob and his ten-year old daughter, Shane DeTorre.
He was portrayed by , who also played Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters.
==Personality==
In the beginning, Frank is lazy, gluttonous, unhealthy, illogical, and sarcastic. These traits come from suffering depression over the death of his wife, Maggie whom Frank did seem to deeply love. However, it wasn't until after Frank became a laughingstock when he accidentally puked on Shane's science and physical education teacher, Mrs. Boyd that Frank started overeating and foregoing basic hygiene. It is the death of his wife and ridicule that Frank gets from almost everyone around him (except for his family) that causes Frank to eat junk food and not take care of himself in order to cope with the tragedies in his life, which in return causes him to not take care of himself. Yet, it is shown Frank never considers the thought of dying as he knows he has to care his daughter, Shane whom he deeply loves.
Because Frank loves his daughter more than anything, Frank does care about her, but partly because his body is under the control of Mayor Phlegmming, he selfishly puts his needs above hers where he is barely able to keep any promises with her. However, Frank does care about Shane's happiness and well-being where he attempted to convince Mrs. Boyd to lift her restraining order so he could attend her school's hiking trip with her. In addition, Frank did look uncomfortable when his brother, Bob announced he'd planned to have Shane leave his home at age sixteen if anything happened to him.
In spite of his flaws, Frank is a good man where he does seem to regret his lifestyle choices that he makes when under Phlegmming's influence. He also regretted how his decision to eat a polluted oyster affected not only himself, but also Mrs. Boyd and Shane. And because of Frank doing barely little to change his ways due to suffering from depression and not getting enough help, most likely due to being under Phlegmming's influence, his relationship with Shane grew estranged as a result.
However, after being saved by Osmosis Jones from being killed by Thrax, Frank grew more responsible and careful with not only himself, but his lifestyle choices. In addition, Frank shed all of his negative qualities and moved on from his wife's death and the mockery he'd received; thus, allowing him to become a more outgoing, reasonable, and healthy man while reconciling with Shane and developing a better relationship with her.
==Role in the film==
Frank first appears looking at a chimpanzee in its exhibit with his daughter, Shane. When the monkey starts touching its butt, Frank tells it to cut it out as he's scratching his own behind. When Shane tried to convince him to start eating more fruits and vegetables, Frank refused, but relented on seeing Shane's sad face. When the chimpanzee steals a hard-boiled egg Frank was eating, Frank fights to get it back and once he succeeds, he goes to eat it, much to Shane's disgust as the egg had been in the chimpanzee's mouth and had fallen onto the ground.
This almost proves to be a fatal mistake, because as it turns out, there was an extremely deadly virus inside that egg named Thrax, who travels across human bodies in order to kill them by collecting their hypothalamuses, improving his record time for killing them each time. He intends to kill Frank within 48 hours, which is faster than any other virus has ever killed.
==Trivia==
*The animated portion of the movie takes place inside Frank's body.
*It is unknown what kind of illness Frank's wife died from, but according to Shane, it was because she was unable to take care of herself like Frank does.
*Due to suffering from depression, it is possible Frank never considered seeing a therapist because of the incident at Shane's science fair made him a laughingstock.
*Frank only appeared in two episodes of it's animated spin-off TV show, Ozzy & Drix, "Home with Hector" where he returned to his poor eating habits prior to Osmosis Jones and Drix getting transferred by a mosquito and into the body of a teenage boy named Hector Cruz and "The Globfather" where he appears as one of the citizens in the asmuement park.
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