Toby Emmerich

writer
Feature Film

Frequency

In 1999, John Sullivan, who lives in his boyhood home, finds an old ham radio that his dad had built, and he naturally wants to see whether it still works. As it turns out, not only does it work, but it puts him in communication with 1969 where he talks to his dad, Frank, on the very day before Frank’s death in a fire. With help from John, Frank avoids the fire, which gives his 1999 son the memories of both a fatherless life and a life where Frank survived but John’s mother did not. —Michael Main
I want you to hide that wallet someplace where nobody’s gonna find it for thirty years.
A silhouette of a man lifting a young boy into a night sky with a vortex of light and the faces of Dennis Quaid (as Frank Sullivan) and Jim Caviezel (as John Sullivan).
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Last Mimzy

The people of the future are dying, so they send time-traveling dolls back to 2007 where they can communicate only with sappy Seattle children. —Michael Main
They’ve been sending other Mimzies to the past to look for it, but none of them have come back.
With their backs to us, young Chris O
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel