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Frequency (New Line Platinum Series) Starring: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher $5.99 Features:
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Editorial Review:
A phenomenon allows police officer John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) to save the life of his long-dead father (Dennis Quaid). But changing the past leads to a string of brutal, serial homicides. Now, they both must race across time to stop the killer.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Music Only Track
Photo gallery
Theatrical TrailerFrequency is really two different--though inextricably linked--movies. First, the emotional drama of a father and son reunited after 30 years of separation. Then there's a science fiction thriller, in which a couple of chance solar storms, occurring exactly 30 years apart, can provide the agency through which the father and son can communicate using the very same ham radio in parallel time frames of 1969 and 1999. The son is John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), a cop, and his father is Frank (Dennis Quaid), a firefighter who died on the job when John was 6, which just happens to be tomorrow for Frank when he and his now-adult son begin talking across time. This is great for John, because now he can warn his dad about the upcoming fire and avert the catastrophe that left him fatherless for most of his life. Accomplishing this gives John new memories of his life with Dad, but unfortunately alters the course of a serial killer, with tragic effect on John's family history. Since John's a cop, and the case he's working on turns out to be the same unsolved case from 30 years before, he and his father work together over the ham radio to solve the case and hopefully avert the tragedy that befell their family.
Time-travel stories have always been problematic, demanding either an extra degree of credulity on the part of the audience or an extra level of explanation on the part of storytellers, which is invariably cumbersome. Frequency handles the troublesome time paradoxes by having John explain how, having altered his past, he now experiences both timelines, as if he's had two pasts that converge in his present. And as changes continue to be wrought in John's past, we see him becoming more and more confused. No doubt the audience can sympathize, at least those of us who try to follow the ramifications of the rapidly accruing time fractures. Luckily, the bond between father and son is so strongly realized in the deeply felt performances of both Caviezel and Quaid that you don't even need to consider the science fiction elements in order to enjoy the film. But if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to allow for the possibility of time shifts, you'll have a far richer experience. --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Gripping and touching: 
[Slight Spoiler Alert]
This is a great movie. The sci-fi aspect of it is very minimal and only serves to underscore the message of the rest of the story. Just how far would you go to save someone you loved?
When I saw it in theaters, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has good action. It's a great thought exercise. I just loved Quaid (as always). It just had the perfect combination of elements. When I got it for my brother for Christmas however I was surprised by the reaction my mother had after we...more info
Excellent...makes you come back for more...: 
After watching this movie several time for the past years on VHS , i
decided to get the DVD, why ??? because this movie is very very good.
The music, the mood, the acting,,,,the STORY....WOW.
All involved with this movie, actors, directors did a great job.
I just finished watching the DVD and the impact is as strong as the first
time. A keeper for sure.
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This was a great thriller. It features making amends with your past, suspense, humor, and values, and combines them well. The movie features a cop who, due to a natural phenomenon, finds himself able to communicate with his father-who died 30 years ago battling a fire in a warehouse. He manages to convince him that he is telling the truth, and, as a result, the father survives the fire. However, this complicates things when, as a result, a killer survives and manages to kill more people. They have to work...more info
Frequency:
Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel are so good in this movie. They play father and son able to communicate via an old ham radio even though his father passed away some thirty years ago. The explanation for this is due to unusual auroral activity and the effect it has on electronics. They discover they have the ability to change history by sharing information when John tells Frank how he died in the line of duty, so many years ago. They work together to stop a serial killer that was never caught, and that now...more info
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