Frequency is one of those movies you watch, and when it ends, you wonder what you actually saw. But not because of a bad story. In fact, quite the opposite. With constantly changing and sometimes conflicting timelines, "Frequency" is a thriller you'll want to watch again and again. For it both asks and answers the timeless question: Is it possible to change a past event? Yes, but with consequences. The action starts in 1969, where the Sullivan family-father Frank, mother Julia and son John--exists at the edge of a dangerous life. Frank is a career firefighter, soon to die in a warehouse blaze. After a brief view of the sun with multiple sunspots, time flashes forward thirty years to the same neighborhood. Up in the sky is a quick flash of green light known in the northern hemisphere as the aurora borealis. John Sullivan is now in his mid-thirties. And his girlfriend Samantha is dumping him for being emotionally shut down. Some time later, his friend from childhood Gordo Hersh and his son Gordy, Jr, discover an old ham radio in John's hall closet. When John starts using it, he hears a voice broadcasting over the airwaves. He comes to realize the voice as belonging to his father Frank Sullivan, talking on the same physical ham radio in his time that John is talking in his own. John finds a way to warn his father of the "Buxton" fire, and if Frank just went a different way, he could have saved himself. Which is exactly what Frank does. But with Frank alive, that alters his own timeline. His wife Julia is a hospital nurse who prevents a medical error that would have killed her patient known as the Nightingale killer. He was responsible for killing nurses, and in this new altered timeline, that list now includes Julia, John's mother. So now Frank in his time and John in his must communicate to fix the consequence of changing the past. Before John told his father how to save himself, John was investigating the Nightingale murders, then including three. Now it jumps to ten, and as Frank crosses paths with the killer in his time, trying to stop the murders both he and John know are coming, more complications arise. Frequency most likely named due to how father and son managed to connect across thirty years amid a solar sunspot storm and the resultant northern lights. It involves a series of conundrums that must be overcome for both to survive. As you ride the roller-coaster of action to the climax, you marvel at how well this movie is made. And wish there were more like it.

There are some points I do not accept in this film, but I like this. One day, John, who lost his father years ago, contacts his father all of a sudden. His father, Frank is a firefighter. They have conversation beyond time and space. So John decides to save his father from the accident that he dies of. For John's advice, Frank is able to survive fire in the building. It is interesting that changes Frank makes affects the present. For instance, after Frank survived a fire, the newspaper article John has changes. And at the John's study, when Frank puts out his cigarette on his desk, a tiny ruins of a fire appears on the desk John is sitting. I was glad to see his parents are alive and they can live peacefully. But owing to change of the past, a colleague of his mother is killed instead of her. I was sorry for the woman. If John did not change the past, she would not be killed... However, John's desire to save his parents moves me to tears. I want to watch it again.

Gregory Hoblit's Frequency is a low key, high concept sci fi thriller that could have quickly degenerated into easy, sensationalistic thrills, but instead chooses to keep itself rooted in character and emotion as opposed to purely effects and spectacle. A lot of sci fi movies use the characters simply as vehicles to test drive the snazzy special effects and often end up lulling us into a coma. This one takes it's extremely minimal effects and uses them only to explore the relationships between characters as opposed to cheaply wowing us, and is a much richer film as a result of it. Hoblit has a few excellent thrillers under his belt (Primal Fear and Fallen come to mind) and even with those he never let the lofty concepts smother the character's growth or journey. Here, Dennis Quaid plays enthusiastic firefighter, loving husband and doting father Frank Sullivan, who lives in 1960's NYC with his kid and gorgeous wife (Elizabeth Mitchell). This film captures family love like no other, as we see through the actor's work that they really, really care about each other and would do anything to keep each other safe. Life throws a wrench in their idyllic lives, and decades later we join up with the adult version of Frank's kid, now a police detective and played by a burnt out, steely Jim Caviesel. He's haunted by the tragic way things turned out with his family. When his buddy gives him an old HAM radio, he absent-mindedly tinkers with it, until he reaches someone, who turns out to be his own father from back in the 60's, thanks to a solar storm of epic proportions that's turning the laws of time and space on earth inside out. It's far-fetched to be sure, but few films turn their beyond reality concepts into something as fun and grounded as this baby. Quaid and Caviesel, communicating across an impossible gulf of time and tragedy, work together to right the wrongs, discover the clues and transform the sad past they share into something more liveable. And we, the audience, are treated to a stellar sci fi/time travel flick that cares endlessly about its characters, aims to please and never ceases to entertain. With terrific supporting work from Andre Braugher, Shawn Doyle and Noah Emmerich, this is one I can watch on repeat and always be moved by its focused desire to tell a great story, and actors embodying the work flawlessly.

Frequency is one of the most unique stories ever told. A young cop whose life is falling apart starts to talk on his father's old ham radio. His father has been dead for 30 years. When John Sullivan starts talking on the radio during a unique solar storm he actually speaks to his dad. together they change the course of their lives John by saving Frank's life during a fire. But in doing so they change history. John's mother is murdered. and Together Father and Son must find a way to prevent this. and bring the killer to justice. Not your typical Sci-Fi movie It is however a movie with heart. and as a result because of it and o f the original story. It stays with you. Even now more then 14 years later I still watch this movie fondly. Cherishing it. The characters are not cardboard cut outs they act like real people. In a weird situation. It's set against the back beat of the 69 world series and the miracle mets. Baseball is important in this movie and there is more then one reason for it. I love time travel stories but this is so much more then that. The Premise is heart tugging. If you could speak to a dead loved one for three days and knowing you can change the future what would you say to them? Would you try to save them? What could you do in this situation ? This movie is a classic of the highest order.