It's a baseball movie. It's science fiction. It's a tearjerker. There are fistfights and explosions and gunshots and cute little kids. There's a joke about high-tech stocks and there's bonding, serious bonding, between father and son, between now and the good old days.
Frequency has everything but the kitchen sink and, amazingly, it works.
It may get lost amid all the bombast of the coming weeks, but Frequency has the look and feel of a major sleeper hit with enough thriller appeal to reach across demographics, and so much emotional tug it's bound to hit home with baby boomers. Quaid is a fireman in New York City in 1969, excited about the Mets' appearance in the World Series. Until Johnny suddenly realizes Dad is due to die in a few days while rescuing a hippie damsel from a blaze. Well, not quite. Because as any good sci-fi fan knows, you can't change one thing in time without changing others.