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Tune in & Ignore the Static...


What would you do with "one more day"? Think about it.
"Frequency " presents itself with some nostalgic surprise and a family oriented story.
Thrown in, is the 'what if ' factor.
What if you could make contact with someone in the past?
What if an atmospheric experience caused a time warp and you were on your ham radio and the next person you talked to was your dad? WOW !!!!!

Frequency was directed by Gregory Hobit with sober humor and mild suspense.
Starring Denis Quad as the dad and James Caviezel as the son, Frequency has a long list of nice supported cast.
The story line evolves around atmospheric phenominom showing up in the year 1969 over the home of he Sullivan family and again over the same home of the son 30 years later.
Time can be a friend or an enemy, delving into murder and strange lights.
Can a person change destiny?
And would you want to?
What if you could talk to yourself…., I mean really talk to yourself literally?
What if…….?

That old videotape came back to haunt me as I watched Dennis Quaid and company in FREQUENCY.
In the movie, through a freak accident of nature, connected to the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis ) a son is able to talk to his father across time on a HAM radio setup.
And now the son (whose father died when he was six ) is all grown up and a cop, and the father realizes he can help his son prevent crimes that are yet to happen.
Likewise the son gets a bright idea -- he wonders if he can save his father from dying back there in time.

The movie starts out pretty good but the plot slows toward the middle and stays slow on out to the end.
Yet there is something else beyond the plot here that becomes very interesting, and that is what happens to the relationship of these two men who now interact not as father and son, but rather as friends.
That is a beautiful thing to see.
Time travel movies are a lot of fun.
And while we used to think such a thing was physically impossible, the science of quantum physics is raising the question of the actual possibility of time travel all over again.
But the physics (or metaphysics) in this story actually take a back seat to the father/son-friend/friend relationship.
That is the real focus of this movie.

I really the part of Elizabeth Mitchell in this movie.
She did a fine job, but I wish she has a bigger role in it.
As the mother/wife; she was a pivotal part of what was happening with these men, and it would have strengthened things to see and hear more of her as the link between them.
The whole scientific idea behind this movie is shot full of holes when you really hold it up to a microscope.
Left-brained perfectionists will probably not like it all that much.
But for those of us intrigued by the idea of transcending the parent-child relationship and emerging in the friend/friend relationship, the movie is a treat.
I guess you just have to be on the right, er, wavelength.

【Dennis Quaid】Frequency Movies【Elizabeth Mitchell】
Daddy, Are You There???

I movies that have imagination.
This one has all the elements to make it entertaining and intriguing.
While, as screen writer Toby Emmerich says, it is closer to the realm of science FANTASY than FICTION, it plays well, it is convincing and I enjoyed every gut- wrenching moment.
It features performances by Dennis Quaid, and John Caviezel, directing by Gregory Hoblit, and some decent special effects.
Throw in a good supporting sound track by Michael Kamen , and a well written screen play by Toby Emmerich and we have a movie something like an extended episode of TWILIGHT ZONE, in color.

My friend and I kept looking at each other and discussing it through the whole movie trying to figure out who did the killing.
I don't want to tell you to much because it will give all the suspense away.
But all I can say is that if there is anyone out there that has lost a loved and wishes that he or she could change the outcome of a certain event and bring them back, this movie is for you.
I'm sure that all of us at on time or another has experienced some kind of set back and would like to change the out come.
I'm sorry I really shouldn't tell you any more accept that movie is different and you will not be dissatisfied with the out come.

The movie is adventurous but keeps a solid story line.
BUT you must not lose your place in your viewing.
And you will be surprised with the results.
I have tried to give enough in the review to tease your decision but not to give full detail away.
I think anyone who enjoys mild suspense and drama with a little 'sci fi' realism will enjoy this movie.
The video runs 119 minutes.
This movie should appeal to sci-fi fans, murder drama fans, ?movies with feel-good ending??? Fans, and baseball fans...

　It is easy to poke holes in how the "consequences of time travel changing history " are handled in this movie.
But if you go into the movie wanting to be entertained, remembering that the whole premise is implausible by its very nature, then you should thoroughly enjoy this movie.

Get this movie !!
Watch it more than once.
Buy a ham radio set and wait for the Northern Lights, if you are looking to change your present.
Communicate with your Dad.
I will settle for acting now to change the future.
I will limit my interaction with the radio to turning it on.....