Ray Liotta, Victor Garber and Stephen McHattie portray three wealthy friends whose children (Dustin Milligan, John Bregar and Laura Vandervoort) are being held for ransom. Unless the fathers pay $3 million ($1 million for each child), its game over..

At long last, one of the best and most influential TV anthologies comes to DVD in a boxed set ($39.97 retail) containing all 21 episodes from the premiere 1973-74 season of the critically acclaimed prime-time NBC police drama, which scored an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Drama Series in its first year.

All-American teen geek Tobe (Dustin Ingram) travels to Indiana, ostensibly to sell his vintage truck but instead encountering the object of his overheated adolescent affections: 80s porn queen Monica Velour (Cattrall), star of such classics as Saturday Night Beaver and Pork n Mindy.

The only film directed by actor Charles Laughton, this 1955 adaptation of Davis Grubbs novel (scripted by James Agee) was not a success when first released, but has since rightfully taken its place among the classics.

Matthew McConaughey is ideally cast in this adaptation of Michael Connellys best-seller, playing Los Angeles legal eagle Mick Haller, so nicknamed the Lincoln Lawyer because his Lincoln Continental, replete with trusty driver Earl (Laurence Mason), serves as his law office.

Smooth pacing and engaging performances make all the difference in director/co-writer Jeff Stephensons low-budget feature debut, a comedy/drama about a group of college friends reuniting for a wedding.

In the annals of World War II movies, its safe to say youve never seen one this one, which rewrites history by speculating that the Third Reich invaded Britain and proceeded to plow through downtown London with guns blazing and bombs bursting.

Following a nuclear holocaust, the Earth is now a desolate, godforsaken wasteland plagued by giant scorpions, killer cockroaches and cheesy rear-projection special effects.

Adapted from Rick Porellos non-fiction best-seller To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by director Jonathan Hensleigh, the film depicts Greenes war on the Cleveland underworld, a situation that grows increasingly embarrassing for the entrenched Italian mob as he repeatedly survives attempts on his life.

TV producer David Prentice (Ian Carmichael) has an idea for a series that will showcase the real lives of celebrity couple Simon and Laura Foster. Reasons Prentice: Theyre doing the same thing in America and with great success. (Little could he ever imagine.

Remaking Alfred Hitchcock indeed, one of his most popular films might seem like courting disaster, but this cheerful 1959 thriller replicates the Master without rancor or insult.

Thomas Dekker plays Smith, an 18-year-old college freshman wrestling with adolescent angst by way of sexual experimentation (with both sexes), substance abuse, self-analysis and other teenaged pursuits. Sometimes he even goes to class, but what he really learns happens outside the classroom.

Ralph Meeker perfectly embodies Mickey Spillanes twofisted private eye Mike Hammer in this wild, weird 1955 film noir classic from ace director Robert Aldrich.

Filmed, remarkably, in eight days, the film follows suburban teens Megan (Rachel Quinn) and Amy (Amber Perkins). Megans the popular, impetuous one. Amys the unpopular, dowdy one. Theyre best friends and they spend a lot of time on-line, and its there that Megan first begins communicating with smooth-talking Josh (Dean Waite).

This lovely, lyrical animated fable is a triumph for Sylvain Chomet (of The Triplets of Belleville renown), who directed, designed, scored, penned the adaptation, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature for his splendid efforts.

For the crew of the HMS Sea Tiger, a long-overdue leave is canceled when orders are issued to intercept a German battleship in the Baltic Sea immediately. Their timings a little off, so the decision is made to pursue the ship into enemy waters, where the Sea Tiger stands alone against numerous German warships and steadily steepening odds.

A grand, grueling adaptation of the international best-seller, director Franklin J. Schaffners compelling 1973 adventure stars Steve McQueen as the real-life Henri Papillon Charriere, the legendary criminal unjustly imprisoned for murder on the infamous Devils Island in what was then French Guiana.

David Hemmings, in a nod to his role in Antonionis Blow Up (1966), stars as Marcus Daly, an English pianist in Rome who witnesses the brutal murder of psychic Helga Ulmann (Macha Meril), then plays amateur sleuth trying to ferret out the killer, joined by saucy reporter Gianni Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi).

This 1955 Western melodrama, based on a Bret Harte story and directed by the prolific Allan Dwan, is chiefly notable today for the performance of one Ronald Reagan in the title role.

The works of horror writer HP Lovecraft receive due screen credit as inspiration for this spoof that sends up Lovecraft but in an affectionate and respectful way, courtesy director/screenwriter Henry Saine and screenwriter/producer/co-editor Devin McGinn, the latter also starring as one of the films unlikely heroes.