Product: Frequency (2000)
Rating: 5.0
"Frequency" proves that movies can still be magical.
Upon seeing the first trailers for "Frequency", I realized that this could be an extremely good movie. Upon seeing it on video, it quickly become of one of my favorite movies. I am still kicking myself for not going to the theater to see it, adding to my regret that the movie did not do as good at the box office as it should have.Simply put, "Frequency" is a movie about second chances, regrets, justice, and reunion. Dennis Quaid, one of my favorite actors, puts in an outstanding performance as Frank Sullivan, fire-fighting baseball-lover extraordinaire, who dies in a warehouse fire in 1969, leaving his child and wife alone.Fast-forward thirty years- it's 1999, and Frank's son John is working for the NYPD as a detective. John and his partner come across the remains of a woman killed a little over thirty years ago in a series of slayings dubbed the "Nightingale murders", as most of the victims were "Nightingale" nurses. As this discovery gives John a chance to close one element from the past, an odd appearance of the Northern Lights in N.Y. somehow messes with time, allowing John to communicate via a ham radio with his dead father.From here, the two Sullivans hook up to stop the "Nightingale" killer across time, with results that must be experienced by the viewer. As Frank and John change past events, John's present becomes a combination of his real past, and the new one being made. But the question becomes- will John, being in the future, reach back and save his father from the fiery death that awaits him?With great acting, superb storytelling, and emotion galore, "Frequency" is a tale that draws you in and, while you suspend reality, grips you till its heart-stopping finale. "Frequency" proves that movies can still be magical.