Dennis Quaid,Jim Cavaiezel,
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FREQUENCY 2000 TRAILER
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Produced by Gregory Hoblit,
Toby Emmerich,
Bill Carraro,
Hawk Koch
Written by Toby Emmerich
Starring Dennis Quaid,
James Caviezel,
Elizabeth Mitchell
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) 28 April 2000
Running time 118 min.
Language English
Budget ~ US$31,000,000
The movie takes place during October 1999. John Sullivan (Caviezel), having broken family tradition by becoming a New York City policeman, instead of a fireman — his father, Frank Sullivan (Quaid), died 30 years ago in a warehouse fire, shortly after Game 2 of the 1969 World Series — and going through personal turmoil, discovers his father's ham radio and begins transmitting.
Due to unusual (and scientifically impossible), aurora borealis activity, he ends up communicating with Frank 30 years in the past, shortly before the date of the warehouse fire that would kill Frank. John is able to warn his father of the fire that would have otherwise taken his life.
However, by saving his father, a new timeline exists. Previously, his mother, Julia 'Jules' Sullivan (Elizabeth Mitchell), left her job as a nurse at a New York hospital to attend to the funeral arrangements. In this new timeline, she is at work, and saves the life of a man who turns out to be the "Nightingale Killer," who had already killed three nurses. Now, he goes on to kill a total of ten, the sixth being John's mother.
Thus, using information from 1999 police files on the killings that did not previously happen, John and Frank must work together across the gap of time to find the murderer and save Julia.
* If Frank in 1969 was the same age as John in 1999, who said he was 36, and Julia and Satch were roughly the same age as Frank, then John would have been born in 1963 and the other characters in 1933. Dennis Quaid was 45 years old during filming, Elizabeth Mitchell 29, James Caviezel 31 (making him older than the actress playing his mother) and Andre Braugher 37.
* A major subplot of Frequency is the 1969 World Series between the New York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles. John relays to Frank certain key moments (including the famous Game 5 "shoe polish" hit-batsman incident with Cleon Jones) during the movie, as a means of proving he knows what will happen and what Frank needs to do.
* During the scene at the Buxton warehouse fire, several pieces of firefighting equipment are used that would not have been available to fire departments in 1969, although the fire truck itself is contemporary.
* Although the movie drops several references to being in the Bayside section of Queens, which is in the northeast part of the Borough, the Sullivan home appears to be near the Triboro Bridge, which would place it in Astoria, in the northwest section.
* When the killer steals Frank's wallet in their first confrontation, he reads Frank's driver's license to find his address, then leaves the wallet behind. With the killer's prints on the wallet, John tells his father to hide it in a place where it won't be found for 30 years. The prints are a match for a cop, Jack Shepard. His police identification card gives his date of birth as July 11, 1944, which would make him 25 years old in 1969 and 55 in 1999 (and would make his still-living parents about 80 years old in 1999). But when they fight again, and Frank grabs Shepard's wallet and finds his license, the birthdate is listed as July 11, 1930, which would make him 39 in 1969 and 69 in 1999 (and push his father, now the only living parent in the altered 1999, to at least 90 years old). Shawn Doyle, who played Shepard, was born in 1968, making him 31 when the movie was filmed.
o Shepard's police ID also gives his address as "Bayside, NY," putting him in the same Queens neighborhood as the Sullivans. But his license, while having the same exact street address, gives the location as "Greenpoint, NY," which is in Brooklyn. The scene taking place at Shepard's apartment leads to a confrontation in a river, which is consistent with either neighborhood: Long Island Sound for Bayside, the East River and Newtown Creek for Greenpoint.
* Gordo, one of John's boyhood friends is upset that he didn't buy Yahoo! stock when it was cheap. In the movie, John uses the ham radio to tell the child version of his friend to always remember the word "yahoo." At the end, his friend ends up being incredibly rich, including owning a Mercedes-Benz sedan with the license plate "1 YAHOO".
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