Frequency (2000)

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CinemaSource

Studio: New Line Cinema

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 28, 2000

Running Time: 117 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher, Noah Emmerich, Melissa Errico, Daniel Henson, Jordan Bridges, Stephen Joffe

director: Gregory Hoblit

Frequency

A tale of time travel in which a father and a son reach out to one another across parallel universes to stop a terrible crime: For John Sullivan, there is no question. He would undo the events of October 12, 1969, when the out-of-control Bruxton fire took the life of his father, a heroic firefighter. Ever since he was a kid, John has dreamed of being able to stop the tragedy of that fateful day, which set into motion the anger and loneliness that have haunted his adult life as a cop in the 1990s. Now John may get exactly what he wished for... and much more than he bargained for.

The most unbelievable part of this sci-fi, time-travel, cop drama, thriller is that is works.

Story

Queens' homicide detective James Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) is more than a little surprised when he contacts his dead firefighter dad, Frank (Dennis Quaid), via ham radio 30 years after the latter's death in a blaze. The ostensible reason for this freakish situation is unusual sunspot activity, but the specifics hardly matter in a scenario in which son saves father from accidental death only to set…