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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Toby Emnmerich
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 28, 2000
DVD: October 31, 2000
Running Time: 118 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for intense violence and disturbing images
Starring Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher, Shawn Doyle, Noah Emmerich, and Melissa Errico
In this mind-bending thriller, director Gregory Hoblit presents a fresh and original take on time travel with the gripping human story of a father (Quaid) and a son (Caviezel) who reach out to one another across parallel universes to stop a terrible crime. (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Smart, suspenseful, satisfyingly unpredictable.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
One of the most skillful, mesmerizing, tense and satisfying time-warp thrillers ever made.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Likely to appeal to the fans of "The Sixth Sense," "Ghost" and other movies where the characters find a loophole in reality. What it also has in common with those two movies is warmth and emotion.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
A suspenseful, fascinating movie that milks the premise for all it's worth.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The star, though, is the script, a rare enough occurrence in Hollywood that it merits special note.
Newsweek Jeff Giles
A touching thriller, a movie that's particularly hard to resist if there are things you never said to your own dad because you didn't have the chance, the inclination or the right ham radio.
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Quaid's buoyant earnestness complements the stunning, low-key performance by Caviezel, whose close-ups give new meaning to the idea that still waters run deep.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Braugher does much to hold this show together, because without him, the reality gets muddled. He's a terrific balancing agent for both Caviezel and Quaid; kudos to casting.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
It's like a chick flick for men--and the women who love them, sniff-sniff.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
Corny and far-fetched it may be, but Frequency works - except for some stretches when it doesn't.
TNT RoughCut Don Kaye
Succeeds at getting the viewer to buy into its premise, thanks to solid, often moving characterizations and the gripping way the plot is spun.
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Had me watching through misty eyes, at least for the first half.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Isn't quite smart enough to untangle one large, insoluble problem at the end.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
May be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
An enjoyably complex sci-fi suspense thriller.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Emmerich's screenplay gains emotional punch from its sincere concern for family values, but science-fiction fans may be disappointed by the limited exploration of its fascinating time-travel premise.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A very complicated movie. It is also pretty wonderful.
Film.com Gemma Files
Confirming the moral of a thousand "Twilight Zone" episodes: Don't play with time.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The time shifting raises questions the movie never answers, but it's hard not to enjoy the ride.
The New York Times Stephen Holden
What makes Frequency work despite is shamelessness is the surreal aura that imbues almost every scene with a sense of heightened feeling.
Read Full Review >USA Today Andy Seiler
This surprisingly sentimental science-fiction thriller boasts enough fresh twists to satisfy time-travel junkies.
San Francisco Examiner David Armstrong
There's a novel, engaging story trying to transmit through the storm of special effects and convoluted plot twists that mar the movie.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
An oddly schizophrenic fantasy thriller that ultimately succumbs to a fatal case of sentimentality.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
What do you get when you cross a serial-killer movie with a sappy father/son drama and give it a time-travel twist?
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
Due largely to the tremendous innate warmth and conviction of leads Quaid and Caviezel ("The Thin Red Line"), you may find yourself cutting a surprising amount of slack for this patently ridiculous tale.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ron Stringer
If the trailer for this one left you feeling you'd pretty much got it, plot point by plot point, so really why bother.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
After keeping its balance over much treacherous terrain, greedily overreaches and stumbles badly at the close.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz F. X. Feeney
As an audience member, you end up feeling like a sucker for even having tolerated that sickly sweet notion about a father, a son, and their silly radio.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sally H gave it an8:
Good movie, the end pulls it all together very nicely with an unpredictable twist.
David S. gave it a 9:
Great movie, even if the radio idea is far fetched.
