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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Frequency, it turns an impossible cross-time connection into an intimate, yearning relationship, with a gentle mystery structure and the emotional pull of trying to change what separation seems to make inevitable.
02
Why this pick
This matches Frequency's satisfying blend of procedural suspense, time-bending investigation and urgent emotional stakes, as a detective pursues a case through a seemingly impossible window into the past.
03
Why this pick
A storm enables contact across decades in this tightly wound Spanish thriller, echoing Frequency's domestic emotion, altered timelines and escalating investigation without losing sight of its protagonist's personal stakes.
04
Why this pick
For Frequency's combination of high-concept science fiction and heartfelt urgency, this delivers a brisk, puzzle-like investigation in which repeated returns to a crucial moment become increasingly personal.
05
Why this pick
This cerebral thriller develops Frequency's fascination with fate, fractured chronology and parent-child devotion into a darker serial mystery, rewarding attention while keeping its emotional core close to the surface.
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01 / THE STORY
In October 1969, FDNY firefighter Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) dies in a warehouse fire, leaving behind his wife Julia (Elizabeth Mitchell) and six-year-old son John. Thirty years later, in 1999, John (Jim Caviezel), now an NYPD detective, is dumped by his girlfriend Samantha for being emotionally shut off. John's childhood friend Gordo (Noah Emmerich) finds a Heathkit#The SB-series and HW-series Single-sideband modulation ham radio that once belonged to Frank, but fails to get it working. The night before the anniversary of his father's death, John is surprised to find the radio broadcasting during an 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. Eventually, he realizes that the other man is his father in 1969 and tries to warn him of his impending death. The next day, while attempting to rescue a young girl, Frank remembers John's warning and manages to escape the warehouse. That evening, the two reconnect and learn a great deal about each other's lives.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Frank Sullivan
John Sullivan
Julia Sullivan
Jack Shepard
Satch DeLeon
Gordo Hersch
Samantha Thomas
Johnny Sullivan (6 Years)
