People love serial killer thrillers, time travel movies, and science fiction, so it’s curious that the combination of all three in 2000’s Frequency didn’t fare anywhere near as well at the box office as you’d expect despite its individually popular parts.
Gregory Hoblit’s high concept genre film wasn’t a bomb, but a haul of $68 million on a $31 million budget made it far from an unqualified smash hit. Reviews were and remain solid to this day, though, with the generational murder mystery boasting respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 70 and 81 percent from critics and audiences.