Frequency

Dennis Quaid, jim Caviezel

Beautifully put together story about time travel via short-wave radio. The plot relies heavily on sentiment...a 35yo man connects by magic with his long-dead father, a NYC firefighter who heroically died while saving a young woman thirty years ago. The excellence of the staging, acting, and editing carried us past the skepticism inherent in a yarn like this.

But after an hour or so the film, having established this mystical contact, goes off the rails. It was obvious the writer didn't know what to do with this set-up and ended up getting lost in the weeds of the paradox of time travel. The contrivances he came up with quickly became asinine.

Too bad. This would have been a fine one-hour movie.

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