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In 2016, Creator/TheCW greenlit ''Series/{{Frequency|2016}}'', a television adaptation of the film; John Sullivan has undergone a GenderFlip into Raimy Sullivan (Creator/{{Peyton List|1986}}), Frank has been made into a cop just like his daughter, and the concurrent timelines are now 1996 and 2016 (only a 20-year separation). Going undercover, he was murdered under circumstances which ruined his reputation and left his widowed wife and daughter alone and confused. The rest of the plot seems to be roughly the same as the film for now, albeit with Frank, having survived his assassination attempt, looking into the who's and why's of his murder.

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In 2016, Creator/TheCW greenlit ''Series/{{Frequency|2016}}'', a television adaptation of the film; John Sullivan has undergone a GenderFlip into Raimy Sullivan (Creator/{{Peyton List|1986}}), Frank has been made into a cop just like his daughter, and the concurrent timelines are now 1996 and 2016 (only a 20-year separation). Going undercover, he was murdered under circumstances which ruined his reputation and left his widowed wife and daughter alone and confused. The rest of the plot seems to be roughly the same as the film for now, albeit with Frank, having survived his assassination attempt, looking into the who's and why's of his murder.
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[=NYPD=] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old ham radio to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover, however, that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. Seems a serial killer known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline – but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims – but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.

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[=NYPD=] [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old [[UsefulNotes/TwoWayRadio ham radio radio]] to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover, however, that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. Seems a serial killer {{serial killer}} known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline – but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims – but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.

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* ButterflyOfDoom: John saves his dad... but kills his mom. [[spoiler: Unusually for the trope, he fixes that too, eventually, along with fixing everything that was wrong with his life.]]

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* ButterflyOfDoom: John saves manages to send a message back in time and save his dad... but father's life. However, because of this change, his mother, who was a nurse, never left the hospital to make funeral arrangements and so was on duty to save the life of a man who would've died. This man turns out to be a serial killer who kills his mom.the mother and is now still at large in John's timeline. [[spoiler: Unusually for the trope, he fixes that too, eventually, along with fixing everything that was wrong with his life.]]



* FinaglesLaw: John manages to send a message back in time and save his father's life. However, because of this change, his mother, who was a nurse, never left the hospital to make funeral arrangements and so was on duty to save the life of a man who would've died. This man turns out to be a serial killer who kills the mother and is now still at large in John's timeline.
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* ForWantOfANail: John manages to send a message back in time and save his father's life. However, because of this change, his mother, who was a nurse, never left the hospital to make funeral arrangements and so was on duty to save the life of a man who would've died. This man turns out to be a serial killer who kills the mother and is now still at large in John's timeline.

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* ForWantOfANail: FinaglesLaw: John manages to send a message back in time and save his father's life. However, because of this change, his mother, who was a nurse, never left the hospital to make funeral arrangements and so was on duty to save the life of a man who would've died. This man turns out to be a serial killer who kills the mother and is now still at large in John's timeline.
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''Frequency'' is a 2000 ScienceFiction film directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Toby Emmerich.

[=NYPD=] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old ham radio to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. A serial killer known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline – but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims – but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.

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''Frequency'' is a 2000 ScienceFiction American science fiction thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Toby Emmerich.

[=NYPD=] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old ham radio to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover discover, however, that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. A Seems a serial killer known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline – but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims – but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.
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[=NYPD=] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old ham radio to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. A serial killer known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline - but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims - but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.

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[=NYPD=] detective John Sullivan (Creator/JimCaviezel) is the adult son of a firefighter, Frank (Creator/DennisQuaid), who tragically died on the job when John was a child in 1969. John discovers that during the aurora borealis in 1999 he can use his father's old ham radio to talk to him exactly 30 years in the past. Using his knowledge of the past thirty years, John changes history, saving Frank from dying in that fateful accident. They soon discover that changing the timeline has drastic consequences. A serial killer known as the Nightingale Killer had died in the old timeline - but in the new timeline, John's mother, Julia (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), a nurse, was not called away due to Frank's death, and thus she was able to prevent the killer's death in the hospital. In the erased timeline, the killer claimed only three victims - but in the new timeline he kills ten women, one of them John's mother.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/ElizabethMitchell is two years ''younger'' than Jim Caviezel while playing his mother in the present timeline. Make-up made her look way older though.
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Working across a span of thirty years, John and Frank work together to stop a serial killer, who soon sets his sights on the Sullivans...

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Working across a span of thirty years, John and Frank work together to stop a serial killer, who soon sets his sights on the Sullivans...Sullivans.

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In 2016, Creator/TheCW greenlit ''Series/{{Frequency|2016}}'', a television adaptation of the film; John Sullivan has undergone a GenderFlip into Raimy Sullivan (Creator/{{Peyton List|1986}}), Frank has been made into a cop just like his daughter, and the concurrent timelines are now 1996 and 2016 (only a 20-year separation). Going undercover, he was murdered under circumstances which ruined his reputation and left his widowed wife and daughter alone and confused. The rest of the plot seems to be roughly the same as the film for now, albeit with Frank, having survived his assassination attempt, looking into the who's and why's of his murder.

Not to be confused with the obscure RhythmGame [[VideoGame/{{FrequencyHarmonix}} of the same name.]]



In 2016, Creator/TheCW greenlit ''Series/{{Frequency|2016}}'', a television adaptation of the film; John Sullivan has undergone a GenderFlip into Raimy Sullivan (Creator/PeytonList), Frank has been made into a cop just like his daughter, and the concurrent timelines are now 1996 and 2016 (only a 20-year separation). Going undercover, he was murdered under circumstances which ruined his reputation and left his widowed wife and daughter alone and confused. The rest of the plot seems to be roughly the same as the film for now, albeit with Frank, having survived his assassination attempt, looking into the who's and why's of his murder.

Not to be confused with the obscure RhythmGame [[VideoGame/{{FrequencyHarmonix}} of the same name.]]
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''Frequency'' is a 2000 film directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Toby Emmerich.

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''Frequency'' is a 2000 ScienceFiction film directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Toby Emmerich.
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** Additionally, when rediscovering the CB Radio in 1999, a shotgun is pulled out of storage. [[spoiler: This shotgun is later used in the climax in 1969 to blow off the Nightingale Killer's hand. ]]

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** Additionally, when rediscovering the CB ham Radio in 1999, a shotgun is pulled out of storage. [[spoiler: This shotgun is later used in the climax in 1969 to blow off the Nightingale Killer's hand. ]]
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* ElectricityKnocksYouOut: The Nightingale killer tracks Frank to a police station interrogation room just as Frank sets off the building's fire sprinklers. When the killer steps through the door, Frank throws a stripped live wire into the puddle he's standing in, shocking him into unconsciousness while Frank escapes. Ironically, the killer is woken by the sprinklers about a minute later and gives chase.
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* UnbelievableSourcePlot: Frank can't warn murder victims in advance when his source of information is time traveling radio transmissions.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly averted. [[spoiler:Not even Shepard's own ''mother'' was spared from his killing spree, just because she was also a nurse]].

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly averted.subverted. [[spoiler:Not even Shepard's own ''mother'' was spared from his killing spree, just because she was also a nurse]].
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly subverted. [[spoiler:Not even Shepard's own ''mother'' was spared from his killing spree, just because she was also a nurse]].

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly subverted.averted. [[spoiler:Not even Shepard's own ''mother'' was spared from his killing spree, just because she was also a nurse]].
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Horribly subverted. [[spoiler:Not even Shepard's own ''mother'' was spared from his killing spree, just because she was also a nurse]].

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