Dennis Quaid stars as Caviezel's late father, who makes time-warp radio contact with his son.
Timing is everything.
Young actors with talent, big-screen presence and a whole lot of luck eventually find that one movie that marks the breakaway point of a big career. But that was as part of an extraordinary ensemble of first-rate actors, not nearly a leading role showcase. Hoblit juggles the necessities of the action, suspense thriller, family drama and science-fiction genres. Hoblit knew from the moment he first met Caviezel that he was the right actor to play Sullivan. If the quintessential idea of John Sullivan was this brooding, emotionally dislocated guy who couldn t maintain relationships in any kind of steady fashion and was still scarred by the loss of his father and the ripple effect of that throughout his life.