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''Frequency'' is a 2000 American science fiction thriller film. It was co-produced and directed by Gregory Hoblit and written and co-produced by Toby Emmerich. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel as father and son, Frank and John Sullivan respectively. It was filmed in Toronto and New York City. The film gained mostly favorable reviews following its release via DVD format on October 31, 2000. ==Plot== In Queens, New York during October 1999, John Sullivan (Caviezel), a 36-year-old homicide detective, breaks up with his girlfriend Samantha (Melissa Errico) with the reason partially attributed to the trauma caused by the death of his fireman father Frank (Quaid). Still living in the same house where he grew up, he discovers his father's Heathkit single-sideband ham radio and begins transmitting radio signals. Because of highly localized electro-temporal spatial effects caused by unusual aurora borealis activity, John somehow makes contact with his father exactly 30 years in the past on the day before Frank's death in a warehouse fire. The ensuing conversation results in Frank thinking John is a stalker. Before the connection cuts out, John is able to shout out the circumstances that led to Frank's death. The next day as little things brought up in their conversation prove true, Frank believes and heeds John's words, escaping the fire to safety. The father and son reconnect on the HAM radio set later that evening, with Frank sharing his dreams and his hopes for his son, and John recounting the details of the Mets-Orioles World Series, which is just beginning in Frank's timeline in 1969. John also reveals to Frank that he now dies of lung cancer in 1989 due to his smoking habit. Frank's survival creates a new timeline where John is the only one with two sets of memories, one of the new and one of the original timeline. At midnight, he tries calling his mother. To his surprise, a deli answers instead. Later that day, John tries to patch up his relationship with Sam, only to discover she has no idea who he is. John's mother Julia Sullivan (Elizabeth Mitchell) had now been murdered by a serial killer later in 1969. His mother's killer, called the "Nightingale Killer," had originally murdered three nurses before he vanished. Some event in the new timeline made it so his victims now numbered ten, with Julia as the sixth. Using information from 1999 police files on the impending seven killings, John and Frank work together across the gap of time to stop the murderer in 1969 in order to save Julia and the remaining six nurses. Frank successfully averts the murder of the first expected victim, but when he tries to protect the next victim, a nurse named Sissy Clark, the killer attacks him in the nightclub bathroom and takes Frank's driver's license. When he regains consciousness, Frank rushes to Sissy Clark's apartment. He desperately knocks loud on the door, causing her neighbor to become suspicious. When he breaks in, he walks through a desolate, creepy apartment. He searches, hoping to rescue the victim, but instead finds her corpse. While assuaging his father, John realizes Frank's wallet now has the killer's fingerprints. Following John's instructions, Frank wraps and hides the wallet in the window bench, where it remains undisturbed until John retrieves it in 1999 and takes it to his crime lab. The lab identifies the fingerprints as belonging to a now-retired detective named Jack Shepard (Shawn Doyle). His identity reveals he was the patient Julia saved at the hospital the night of the Buxton fire, with his survival allowing more women to be killed. In this new timeline he presumably stopped after being caught up in the Knapp hearings. Meanwhile, in 1969, Frank is arrested by Satch DeLeon (Andre Braugher), his friend and John's future partner, when police find Frank's driver's license with Jack Shepard's latest victim. Frank struggles to maintain contact with John as Satch argues with him. The resulting altercation knocks the ham radio off Frank's desk, and it stops transmitting. At the station, Frank uses his veteran firefighting knowledge to escape and searches Jack's apartment for evidence. During all this, Satch, having learned about Frank's communication with his grown-up son, watches the 1969 World Series and realizes Frank has told the truth when events he described to him come true. Jack is presumed dead after an underwater struggle with Frank - Frank is cleared of charges. Frank returns home and repairs the radio, happily telling John that Shepard is dead and Julia is saved. John isn't so sure - his photographs have yet to reflect the change. Suddenly, in both 1969 and 1999, Jack breaks into the Sullivan home. In the past, Shepard is distracted by Julia while threatening to kill the young John, allowing Frank to shoot off his hand with a shotgun. Jack flees the house. In 1999, Jack is getting ready to shoot John when his hand suddenly shrivels up and vanishes. The house ripples and the furnishings change as the timeline corrects itself. Jack is then shot and killed by an aged Frank, aware of the events of 1969 and anticipating Jack's return for the previous three decades, and the new alterations to the timeline having saved both him and Julia. (Frank decides to quit smoking, thus preventing the lung cancer.) The film concludes with a neighborhood baseball game in 1999. Frank and Julia are there, along with John; John and Samantha are now married and expecting their second child. Thanks to some advice John previously gave him over the radio, his best friend Gordo is now wealthy and a lot happier. As John wins the game with a home run that allows both himself and Frank to score, a montage is shown of John's life with his parents in the new timeline. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frequency (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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