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The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Plot; During an atmospheric anomaly, a man finds that he is able to communicate w/his Father 30 years in the past via a ham radio.Like so many movies that deal w/altering the past, there are a host of logical faults and a truckload of bad science here, but I'm a forgiving sort of they're in the service of a compelling story, and for the most part that's true here. There's a domino effect to a decision that one of our characters makes that sends the story into a reasonably compelling, tense, if not quite taut, thriller direction. But what holds it together is the relationship and the performances of the two leads (Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel). Despite their interactions coming across the ages, theirs is a bond that feels real, and as a result I cared, even when the flaws in the story might have otherwise made me not.

Simply amazing, very different idea, excellent performances, dad-son relationship

This film is a family drama in which a son communicates with his father, dead for years, through a radio that, through some mysterious means and that the film does not clarify much, opens a temporary portal or something. All those who say this seems implausible have reason to say it, and I understand that because I also thought so. The problem with the script is that it has its origin in such a weak premise because otherwise the story is profound, touching and so pleasing that the logical weakness of the story ends up being forgiven. The characters are also easily appealing and pleasing, being well developed from the psychological point of view. Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel are the main actors of the cast and have lived up to expectations, achieving a very pleasant bond between them. The rest of the cast virtually does what it has to do and nothing else.

Re-viewing this after its first run in 2000, due to the new (2016) network version, I am even more impressed. After too many sloppy-script films of late, too many gimmicky and overdone-effects film, Frequency comes back as a tight and very involving film. Dennis Quaid is a brave NYC firefighter who has been killed rescuing a runaway girl from a burning warehouse, while the Amazing Mets stun everyone with a World Series victory in October 1969. Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line, Person of Interest) plays his son, now a cop thirty years later. Somehow linked to the Aurora Borealis in both time frames, the two make contact with each other across years by Dad's ham radio. The son is able to prevent his father's death, but changing the past also has other consequences which continue to get more complex. Family dedication with many twists! All of the major actors do a stellar job, and the tension is powerful but not pushy. See this one...