Typical time-travel brain-twister, with a mere ham radio serving as time machine, enabling a thirty-something New York cop to converse with his late father, both of them speaking into the same microphone in the same house in Queens over a distance of three decades: "We gotta be talkin' off the mother sunspot of all time!" The son uses his knowledge of intervening events to save his father from the fire that killed him, but that change brings about another change: the murder of his mother. Why? What was different? What to do about it? In the frantic action of the finale, please don't neglect to ask yourself how the police failed for thirty years to make an arrest on a serial murderer whose identity was known to them, who left them a bagful of incriminating evidence, and one of whose hands has been freshly blown off by a shotgun. With Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, and Noah Emmerich; directed by Gregory Hoblit. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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