FREQUENCY
PG-13. Thriller. 121 minutes.
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Starring
Dennis Quaid, Andre Braugher, James Caviezel, Shawn
Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell
Directed
by
Gregory Hoblit
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Synopsis: What if you had the chance to travel
back in time and change just one event in your life? What
would it be? 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 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 has wished for, and more than
he bargained for. One day before the anniversary of his
father's death, in the midst of the spectacular storm
known as the aurora borealis, John Sullivan discovers
in the house he inherited his father's old ham radio and
begins to play with it. Through the electrical static,
he finds himself talking to a man who claims to be a firefighter
and who appears to be awaiting the World Series of 1969.
Is John really talking to his own living father on the
very same day, in the very same house, but exactly three
decades ago? At first neither can believe it, but soon
John is carrying on an all-night conversation with his
young father, sharing for the first time his deep love
and regret over his future death. Yet John realizes that
now he may be able to change all that. By alerting Frank
to the mistake that cost him his life the first time around,
John saves his youthful father from dying in the Bruxton
fire. On October 12, 1999, John Sullivan discovers that
he now has photographs on his walls of his father as a
gray-haired man. By changing the past, the Sullivans have
forged a new present. John is ecstatic with his new memories
of his father- until he discovers other things have been
altered. Subtle changes caused by his father's survival
have led to a string of unsolved serial homicides, including
the grisly murder of John's mother. Now Frank and John
must race against the clock-divided by three decades and
connected only by a radio-to prevent a murder that will
seal their destinies. And each time Frank changes something
in his universe, John wakes up to a whole new reality.
Released on: Friday, April 28, 2000