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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 2663
Released: October 31, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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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 Trailer
Description of Frequency (New Line Platinum Series):
Frequency 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
Frequency (New Line Platinum Series) Reviews:
Wish Fulfillment in an Entirely Entertaining Film 
2009-10-04 - Having advanced degrees in neither Physics nor Metaphysics, I accept entirely the possibility that all the events transcribed in this satisfying opus could have happened and may well happen in the future. With the exception of the quite prosaic mode of communication between generations, all the action is a matter of everyday occurrences carried out in everyday style. The success of Director and Cast in maintaining that spirit of ordinariness is one of the two chief elements in carrying the day for the film. The second, even more important, is the prayerful wish fulfillment provided by the fundamentally ritualistic character of the film, that death does not sever the connection of generations and that nobody truly dies. Whatever the secular character of our minds there is always lurking at those deepest level of the human psyche the need to believe that neither we nor our loved ones die. It is at that level, through the fine work of the cast and the creators, that people felt much of their pleasure in the film.
Maybe not! At any rate, it is a film redolent of all those in movie history which have sought to convey the message that time and death can be defeated; it does a good job for what it seeks to be....something not quite as dramatically penetrating as Hamlet.
Good movie 
2009-09-26 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2KEXG4QG5QSCD
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING MIX OF SCI-FI, CRIME STORY AND DRAMA!
2009-08-23 - An interesting idea that blends family and crime drama with sci-fi elements to make a highly entertaining movie `Frequency' is one of the most entertaining films of its kind. Quaid and Caviezel hand in very good performances and make the unbelievable, well.... believable. Usually these types of films can be confusing and tedious, but because the center story about a boy losing his firefighter father at an early age is heartfelt, it makes up for any minor plot holes. Look fast for a young Michael Cera as John's son. The DVD has an excellent transfer and there are some interesting extras including commentary, deleted scenes and feature-ettes.
Unforgettable
2009-06-16 - When a freak aurora borealis causes interferences in the airwaves, a father and son separated by the father's death are reunited via a shortwave radio.
That's a simple summary of what's a very complex and heartrending story. Sully (James Caviezel) is living in present day NYC in the house he grew up in. He comes across an old shortwave and hooks it up and manages to contact his Dad back in the past. He's a burned out cop whose relationship is going awry.
Frank (Dennis Quaid) is a loving firefighter Dad who gets an eerie message from his son in the future. "If you'd just gone the other way...instead of following your instincts..."
Together, these two guys work to change history....
I first saw "Frequency" in the theatre and had to buy the VHS, then upgrade to the DVD. This is one of my all-time favorite films. I have to watch every couple of years, cry, then put the film aside. This is not just a sci-fi story, but a compelling family story that depicts a love that transcends time and space.
Rebecca Kyle, June 2009
Frequency a movie DVD
2009-05-09 - The DVD Frequency with Dennis Quaid, includes Time travel, using a ham radio,that links the present with the past through an unusual storm and Northern lights. John Sullivan, played by Jim Caviezel, a cop, links to his father, Frank Sullivan,played by Dennis Quaid, a firefighter,who was lost to him due to a tragedy of a fire. The Scifi is intensive, but very interesting.
I recommend this to those who like Scifi and Time Travel. My order was promptly acknowledged and arrived in good time. The cost was within my means and the product is in excellent condition. nanlegf26
