15 Minutes/Frequency/Thirteen Days

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Screen: Color

AWARDS

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Original Song - 2000 (Garth Brooks)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Dennis Quaid - Frank Sullivan
       Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy
       Andre Braugher - Satch DeLeon
       Avery Brooks - Leon Jackson
       Melina Kanakaredes - Nicolette
       Henry Strozier - Dean Rusk
       Frank Wood - McGeorge Bundy
       Kevin Conway - Gen. Curtis LeMay
       Daniel Henson - Johnny Sullivan (6 years)
       James Handy - Captain Duffy
       Bill Smitrovich - Gen. Maxwell Taylor
       Bruce Cutler - Himself
       Charlize Theron - Rose Hearn
       Christopher Lawford - Cmdr. William B. Ecker
       David Alan Grier - Mugger
       Elya Baskin - Anatoly Dobrinyn
       Boris Krutonog - Alexander Fomin
       Peter White - John McCone
       James Karen - George Ball
       Tim Jerome - Journalist
       Olek Krupa - Andrei Gromyko
       Lucinda Jenney - Helen O'Donnell
       Oleg Vidov - Valerian Zorin
       Stephanie Romanov - Jacqueline Kennedy
       Anton Yelchin

• Director:

  John Herzfeld, Gregory Hoblit, Roger Donaldson

• Producer:

  David Blocker, John Herzfeld, Nick Wechsler, Keith Addis, Gregory Hoblit, Howard W. Koch, Bill Carraro, Toby Emmerich, Kevin Costner, Armyan Bernstein, Peter O. Almond

• Screenwriter:

  John Herzfeld, Toby Emmerich, David Self

• Book Author:

  Philip D. Zelikow, Ernest R. May

• Cinematographer:

  Jean-Yves Escoffier, Alar Kivilo, Andrzej Bartkowiak

• Composer (Music Score):

  Anthony Marinelli, J. Peter Robinson, Michael Kamen, Trevor Jones

• Editor:

  Steven Cohen, David Rosenbloom, Conrad Buff

• Production Designer:

  Mayne Berke, Paul Bryan Eads, Dennis Washington

• Art Director:

  Jess Gonchor, Dennis Davenport, John Kasarda, Ann Harris, Tom Taylor

• Co-producer:

  Paul Deason, Mary Montiforte

• Associate Producer:

  David Gaines, James M. Freitag, Patricia Graf, Staci A. Silva

• Executive Producer:

  Claire Rudnick Polstein, Robert Shaye, Richard Saperstein, Marc Abraham, Michael De Luca, Ilona Herzberg, Thomas A. Bliss

• Set Designer:

  John P. Bruce, Stan Tropp, Casey Hallenbeck, Chuck Potter, Beth Kushnick, Gordon Sim, Nancy Mickelberry, Don Woodruff, Denise Pizzini, Julie Ray

• Costume Designer:

  April Ferry

• Set Decorator:

  Casey Hallenbeck, Chuck Potter

• Costume Designer:

  Elisabetta Beraldo, Isis Mussenden

• Set Decorator:

  Denise Pizzini

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Kim Ornitz, Leslie Shatz, James J. Sabat, Douglas Ganton, Steve Boeddeker, Richard Bryce Goodman

• Special Effects:

  Perpetual Motion Pictures, Inc., Cinesite

• First Assistant Director:

  James M. Freitag, Jeffrey Steven Authors, Rob Albertell, Robert Huberman

• Animator:

  Cinesite

• Stunts:

  Jim Halty, Pete Antico

• Casting:

  Mindy Marin, Cathy Sandrich, Amanda Mackey-Johnson, Dianne Crittenden

• Digital Effects:

  Perpetual Motion Pictures, Inc.

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Charlie Picerni

• Co-Executive Producer:

  Janis Rothbard Chaskin

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Tom Bellfort

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Michael J. McAlister

• Second Unit Director:

  Dennis Washington

• Unit Production Manager:

  Paul Deason

• Animation Effects:

  Cinesite

• Visual Effects:

  Cinesite

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Steven D. Williams

REVIEWS:

• Frequency is sometimes referred to as a "tearjerker for men," since it deals movingly with the bonds between a father (Dennis Quaid) and son (Jim Caviezel). But a more complimentary gauge of its power is to compare it to Back to the Future. That's because both films require a major suspension of disbelief for the viewer to swallow the otherwise preposterous time travel conundrums at their core. Once the viewer accepts the framework -- that a rift in the space-time continuum could allow Caviezel to talk to his dead father, 30 years in the past, over ham radio waves -- the enjoyment that follows is pure and unfettered, because the movie stays true to the rules it establishes. Both leads turn in earnest, energetic performances, and the script doesn't fail them. It's the small elements of a cleverly devised time-twister story that really resonate. For example, in one memorable scene, Quaid hides a key piece of evidence that may help his son solve a murder in the floorboards of the house where Caviezel still lives. "Moments later," Caviezel digs it up, covered with dust and cobwebs. Sports fans and New Yorkers will appreciate the nostalgic 1969 the film conjures, when everyone in the borough of Queens was electrified by the "Amazin'" Mets and their appearance in the World Series. It's a tall task to ask any film to duplicate the sublime experience of Back to the Future, but the fact that this is even in the ballpark, so to speak, is a real testament. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
• It may seem nearly impossible to create a taut, engaging thriller out of events where the outcome has already been predetermined (as they were in 1962), but the team that assembled this crackling political drama has succeeded. Thirteen Days triumphs as a story of the tests of human endurance, mostly because it never loses the sense of urgency of the situation at hand. With the aid of his perfectly in-sync cast, director Roger Donaldson never resorts to glossiness or pandering to present the film's tale of a conflicted president in the midst of chaos. Bruce Greenwood not only captures JFK's cadences and physicality, but also gives the former president an unmistakable core of integrity and believability. Kevin Costner and Steven Culp are equally nuanced as well; the film's most admirable trait is how it suggests the vitality of their friendship without resorting to pathos or cheap sentiment. It's rare to see a politically centered movie with this much heart: though Thirteen Days may not be as edgy or risk-taking as one might like, it is undeniably rooted in true emotion -- one of the rarest things to capture in popular entertainment. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi