High Frequency
My husband is a ham radio operator and was excited to watch this movie, which is on YouTube. To be honest, I fell asleep halfway in the middle. It is a solid story about long distance friendship, but somewhere between the poor quality dub and the slow pacing, I couldn't stay awake. Doh!
High Frequency is a 1988 Italian movie about the friendship that develops between two isolated people through radio--a young man alone in an earth station in the Alps and a young boy on an island off the coast of Maine. They chat easily until one day the man, Peter, witnesses a murder picked up by the satellite.
The headline talent is Vincent Spano, who played Alec's friend Raj in The Black Stallion Returns. I'm not sure if it's because of the translating or the dubbing, but there's a lot of scenery chewing and hilarious plot holes. Danny puts himself in harm's way to solve the murder, among other things. The movie ends with the two friends finally meeting in person.
Hubs noted several technical problems with movie, as nerds are wont to do. Among them was when Peter tells a Russian ham radio operator "not to call back". Amateur bands are public bands and, uh, not telephones. Anyway, it does have its charms and it's not that terrible.
High Frequency is a 1988 Italian movie about the friendship that develops between two isolated people through radio--a young man alone in an earth station in the Alps and a young boy on an island off the coast of Maine. They chat easily until one day the man, Peter, witnesses a murder picked up by the satellite.
The headline talent is Vincent Spano, who played Alec's friend Raj in The Black Stallion Returns. I'm not sure if it's because of the translating or the dubbing, but there's a lot of scenery chewing and hilarious plot holes. Danny puts himself in harm's way to solve the murder, among other things. The movie ends with the two friends finally meeting in person.
Hubs noted several technical problems with movie, as nerds are wont to do. Among them was when Peter tells a Russian ham radio operator "not to call back". Amateur bands are public bands and, uh, not telephones. Anyway, it does have its charms and it's not that terrible.
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