Talk:Frequency (film)

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Contents 1 2006 DVD release & Reviews 2 The frequency seen in Frequency 3 Trivia 4 Trivia 4.1 Plot 4.2 Characters 4.3 Firefighting 4.4 Locations 4.5 Music 4.6 Ham radio 5 Unclear Sentence

[edit] 2006 DVD release & Reviews

Does anyone know anything about the 2006 release?

• 2000
• 2006 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sysy (talk • contribs) 00:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC).

Why does the introduction say average reviews, when at the bottom, the Rottentomato overall review is 71%. That's hardly average. [FunKeh]

Read the rest of the Reception section. Not all of the reviews were above average. Roger Ebert called the film's plot "contrived"; David Armstrong ... criticised the "unintentionally funny climax"; James Berardinelli gave the film two stars out of four; Gary Brown ... insisting the "ending prove[d] to be a major let-down". Ward3001 (talk) 03:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The frequency seen in Frequency

I trimmed it (laborious description of dial readout and 15M band, etc) to be more encyclopedic. - LuckyLouie 01:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

→ From article Matthew 20:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

[edit] Plot

• A similar plot was used in the TV soap opera Port Charles in 2001, with Frank Scanlon (Jay Pickett) using a 1973 computer to warn a girl named "Cookie" not to sleep with Scott Baldwin (Kin Shriner) after a high school dance, but this prevents the birth of his present-day girlfriend, Dr. Karen Wexler (Marie Wilson). In typical soap opera fashion, however, the plot gets more convoluted, with the now-never-existing Karen being the only possible blood type for Ariana, who needed a Liver Transplant. And Frank seeks out a voodoo priest to send him back in time to keep Cookie from using the computer to talk to him in the future.
• "Frequency" resonates strongly with many "Quantum Leap" fans as the strong father-son relationship and "time travel" elements are present in both "Frequency" and "Quantum Leap". Also, both fathers smoked and both sons try to dissuade them from this to help lengthen their fathers' lives and ultimately prevent their untimely deaths.
• A "TVB" series - "To Get Unstuck in Time" also uses the same plot.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Characters

• 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.
• 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.
• In at least one of the Dick Cavett sequences, one of the physicists explaining the nature of the sunspots and solar storms is a professional astronomer, Dr. Sten Odenwald. He has several websites, including Space Weather, Ask the Space Scientist, and Ask the Astronomer.

[edit] Firefighting

• 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.

[edit] Locations

• 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.
• 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.

[edit] Music

• Garth Brooks performs the movie's theme, "When You Come Back To Me Again".
• The title track of the London-based rock trio Drive Like You Stole It debut mini-album 'Frequency' was inspired by the film.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Ham radio

• The ham radio callsign used by Dennis Quaid's character in the movie - W2QYV - belongs to the Niagara Radio Club, based in Lewiston, New York.
• In several scenes, John is seen pacing while having a conversation over the radio, however, two-way radios are incapable of open conversations in the style of a conference call. Only one person may transmit at a time, and must "key" their microphone with a hand or foot-operated contact switch while transmitting.
• The radio used in the film is a Heathkit SB-301 receiver only, and is, in reality, incapable of transmitting.^[1]
• The actual radio frequency seen in the film Frequency is approximately 21.376 MHz.

[edit] Unclear Sentence

In the Plot section of the article, the sentence that reads 'He flees' is unclear. It is not quite clear whether it is Frank that flees or Sheppard. As odd as that may sound, as Sheppard had his head blown off, it is still rather unclear and including the name of the person that fled in this sentence would clear that up. --Credema (talk) 07:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Sheppard has his hand blown off, not his head. A slight difference. Ward3001 (talk) 16:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)