Frequency is a thriller starring Dennis Quaid as Frank Sullivan, a firefighter for the New York Fire Department. It's October of 1969 and the solar activity has set up a fantastic Aurora Borealis every night for the next few nights. Frank has just returned from a spectacular opening sequence, to his wife Julia and son John.

Meanwhile, on October of 1999, John Sullivan (played by James Caviezel) is breaking up with his girlfriend. He lives in the same house he's lived at all his life. His mom lives in an apartment, still in New York. His dad is long dead. Gordo, John's childhood friend, and Gordo's son are looking for the old fishing gear when they find Frank's old CB radio set.

Wanting the reminisce, they set it up but it doesn't work. Later that night when John in alone the set starts working. A voice from out of the ether calls. They talk a bit, and eventually John realizes that he's talking to his dad, who is due to die the next day at a warehouse fire. John tries to convince Frank that it really is his son, thirty years in the future, and to warn him. But Frank doesn't believe him so John describes the 2nd game of the 1969 World Series.

The next day at the firehouse, Frank watches the World Series on television and sees a play described by John, just as the alarm rings. As they race to the fire, they get the results of the game, wherein the Mets came back to win. At the fire Frank braves the flames to rescue a young woman trapped in the warehouse, as he tries to leave he remembers John's warning and goes the other way and gets out alive.

Back in 1999, John is suddenly flooded with new memories of his dad. But he also has the old memories, and no one else seems to have noticed anything. He's a bit confused, and when he gets to work (he's a homicide detective for the NYPD) he finds out that his mom died a week later (thirty years ago), murdered by the Nightingale Killer, who targetted young nurses. Before, there had only been three murders but now there were ten.

Somehow, they changed the past so that the killer continued his spree (and we actually see what happened although they don't know). With knowledge of the future victims, John convinces Frank to try to catch the killer before he kills again.

This is a good movie, definitely worth watching. It's interesting to see how a few little things done in 1969 change the current 1999. The killer is still around in 1999 so there's a bit of a dual chase. The World Series is used to good effect, as it's how they can prove that John is really from the future. Good ending, if a bit predictable.

Other than Dennis Quaid, the only other people I recognized were AndrŽ Braugher (from Homicide) as Satch DeLeon, John's mentor in the police department and Frank's friend. James Caviezel who plays John I've seen around but don't really remember the roles, even after looking them up.

Dennis Quaid has been around for a long time. But he's never done anything really really cool. Looking through his filmography I liked his roles in Enemy Mine and Dragonheart. But he's been a supporting actor as often as getting top billing, even today.