The ads for this film ask: "What if you could talk to someone you love...who has been dead for 30 years?" Well, the characters in THIS film CAN and DO. Start with a fireman who dies in the year 1969. Now, jump to his son, a cop on the trail of a serial killer in the year 1999. Throw in a ham radio, the 1969 Mets, and the aurora borealis, and then start to change things in the past. What results, is an intriguing, often thrilling, jig-saw puzzle of a film. Exciting adventures overlap one another with such intensity, that you don't get time to absorb one before you're off on another. Father and son work together(don't ask!) to solve the killings, while they themselves become an integral part of them. At times I thought that one or the other was about to vanish entirely and then...... I won't give any more of the plot. Go see it, and find out for yourself what happens. I really enjoyed it.

In the time-honored tradition of BACK TO THE FUTURE, FREQUENCY puts a new and interesting spin on changing the past, messing up the future and then having to somehow fix it all. Due to large solar storms, John Sullivan (Jim Cezaviel) is able to communicate with his father Frank (Dennis Quaid) 30 years in the past via a long-wave radio. As they converse, things Frank learn allow him to do things differently than he otherwise would have, thus changing the future John lives in. Like most time travel related movies, most of the details don't really work and there are obvious holes in the storyline. They really try to push the whole space-time idea in the beginning (even though its subtle in the background) and I felt like that cheapened the story a bit -hey, its fantasy, let's just accept that. Quaid does a great job with his late-sixties Queens accent, I found myself really enjoying his character, but Cezaviel isn't quite as likable. If you're able to just not think and enjoy this one, its actually quite exciting and touching at times and not a bad way to spend 2 hours.