Frequency

Genre: Sci Fi | Year: 2000 | Duration: 118 mins | Director: Gregory Hoblit | Medium: DVD | Trailer: HERE | Language: English | My rating: 3.5*/5*

Favorite Dialogue: “John Sullivan [Jim Caviezel]: Ya’know the past is a funny thing, we all got skeletons in closet and ya never when one is gonna pop up and bite ya in the ass”

Frequency is about time travel and alternate paradoxes, baseball, father (Dennis Quaid as Frank Sullivan) and son (Jim Caviezel as John Sullivan), aurora borealis, and New York city. John, who’s a homicide detective in NYPD uses a Ham radio to connect and communicate with his deceased father 30 years in the past through the miracle of extraordinary solar activity, and alters the course of events and saves his father from death as a fire fighter for FDNY. 

Even though the film has competent acting and direction, the script seems poor. Moreover there are several factual errors in the movie. One of my favorite errors is that, when Shepard and his partner are looking for Frank on the docks, the camera pans to the left and we see a flash of the World Trade Center just before the cameraman catches his error. It was built between 1970 and 1977, not 1969! As past events change, so do John’s old clippings and framed photos, updating themselves every time somebody who died doesn’t.

This science fiction about alternate realities and the cosmic relationship between cause and effect is an interesting watch.