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Frequency
2000
An inspiring, hopeful psychological thriller, FREQUENCY features two standout performances by Quaid (D.O.A.) and Caviezel (THE THIN RED LINE). Caviezel is John Sullivan, a 36-year-old police officer who has never quite gotten over the early death of his father, Frank (Quaid), a firefighter who lost his life while on the job. .. Read more
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher |
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| Director | Gregory Hoblit |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Frequency
An inspiring, hopeful psychological thriller, FREQUENCY features two standout performances by Quaid (D.O.A.) and Caviezel (THE THIN RED LINE). Caviezel is John Sullivan, a 36-year-old police officer who has never quite gotten over the early death of his father, Frank (Quaid), a firefighter who lost his life while on the job. When John discovers that he has begun to miraculously communicate with his father over short wave radio, circa 1969, he tries to warn him of the impending disaster, changing history in the process.
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher, Jim Caviezel, Noah Emmerich |
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| Director | Gregory Hoblit |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Dec 2000 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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Changing the past to alter the present is the intriguing premise of this diverting thriller. Via an ancient ham radio set, Jim Caviezel is able to speak to his beloved fireman dad, Dennis Quaid, across 30 years of time, on the day before Quaid is due to die in a warehouse blaze. Forewarned by Caviezel, Quaid escapes his fate, but his survival changes history: suddenly, Caviezel's mum (Elizabeth Mitchell) no longer exists! Combining a relationship yarn with a race-against-time bid to hunt down a killer, it plays like a big-budget episode of The Twilight Zone. Paradoxes appear as the film gets increasingly complex, but our interest is maintained by fine performances from Quaid and Caviezel, and by sharp direction from Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), whose only serious misjudgement is an unforgivably slushy finale.
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Supernatural tale of father-son relationships and male-bonding that becomes an increasingly silly thriller involving a serial killer. Its appeal appears to lie in the evasion at its centre: its refusal to accept the fact of death.
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Edge of your seat stuff
I had never heard of this movie prior to hiring it in 2000. 4 of us sat watching it and it is one of those movies which sucked us in straight away and had us shouting at the screen.
The direction is fast paced and moody, the acting is good, story is great.
It's not the best movie of all time, but damn worth seeing - in my opinion.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Lovely bit of American sentimentality
We watched this because my partner has an unhealthy obsession with Dennis Quaid. I can't say I mind him, he's got a nice smile, not sure I can forgive him for marrying Meg Ryan - but there's no accounting for taste. This film tells the unlikely story of a father and son who manage to speak to each other through some sort of temporal shift caused by the northern lights.....right now for the unbelievable bit.....they manage to thwart
evil and cheat death for decades. #nice film, a bit mushy, but nice for a Sunday afternoon. -
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