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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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