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Frequency

2000, Movie, PG-13, 117 mins

Frequency: Review

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What do you get when you cross a serial-killer movie with a sappy father/son drama and give it a time-travel twist? An overblown Twilight Zone episode whose flood of treacly sentiment is partially concealed under the sci-fi trappings. Troubled New York City cop John Sullivan (James Caviezel) was permanently scarred by the death of his beloved father (Dennis Quaid), who died fighting a warehouse blaze when John was just a boy. Mired in a permanent state of "what might have been," John lives in his childhood home in Queens, can't keep a girlfriend and sinks into black depression when the date of his father's death rolls around. The night before the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, John is tinkering with his dad's old, apparently broken ham radio when it crackles to life and connects him with a friendly guy named Frank — a fireman who lives in Queens who has a wife and a young son he calls Chief, the very same nickname John's father used to call him; a guy whose call letters are the same as John's dad's, because he is John's dad, miraculously able to speak to his son from 30 years in the past. Could the aurora borealis, which is lighting up the sky just as it did before Frank's death, be responsible, or is it a flat-out miracle? Whatever... it's not giving much away to say that John helps his dad avoid his fiery death; the script starts twisting and turning when it comes to what happens next, which is where that serial killer comes in. Your reaction to this film probably depends entirely on how its "wouldn't it be cool" premise strikes you. If you find it silly, or think John would be better served by therapy than a rift in the time-space continuum, you're not the audience for this gee-whiz fable about turning back time. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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