Frequency 🎥 2000 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1969 New York, a gasoline tanker overturns on a highway ramp, spilling fuel into an electrical substation below ground and trapping two workers. Among the responding firefighters is veteran Frank Sullivan, who goes underground to rescue the workers against the direction of his commander. Despite the rising level of fuel and the sparking created by damaged electronics, Frank and another firefighter pull the workers out and escape just before a spark ignites a huge explosion. Frank returns safely home to his wife Julia and young son Johnny. In 1999, John Sullivan is an NYPD detective still living in his childhood home.

His girlfriend Samantha leaves him because she believes he is emotionally shut off, the result of his father Frank dying in a fire when John was six years old. John’s lifelong friend and neighbor, Gordo, stops by to borrow fishing equipment and finds a Heathkit single-sideband ham radio that once belonged to Frank but fails to get it working. The night before the 30th anniversary of his father’s death, John is surprised to find the radio operating during a particularly intense occurrence of the aurora borealis and has a brief conversation with another man concerning the 1969 World Series, which John is able to recount in specific detail.

He realizes from this and other details that he is communicating with his father on the same date in 1969 and warns him of the mistake that led to his death. At first, Frank is alarmed and refuses to believe, but the next day, while rescuing a runaway from a burning warehouse, he recalls John’s warning, changes his course, and survives the fire. In 1999, John is suddenly struck with new memories of his father surviving until 1989. That night, he and Frank reconnect, and they share details of their lives. John warns Frank that he will eventually die in 1989 of lung cancer.

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