4 Film Favorites: Modern Comedies (Blu-ray Set) [Blu-ray] [Standard]

Universal 10-Film Sci-Fi Collection (Bl

Five-disc set includes The Hunt For Red October (1990)The world's largest and deadliest submarine, an undetectable Soviet craft codenamed Red October, is hijacked by commander Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) and heading for America, and a race against time begins as both superpowers seek to capture the sub or destroy it. Hit "End of the Cold War" thriller based on Tom Clancy's book also stars Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill. 135 min. C/Rtg PG Patriot Games (1992)Tom Clancy's best-selling novel is turned into an intense action thriller with Harrison Ford playing Jack Ryan, the former CIA advisor who finds his and his family's lives threatened by a group of Irish terrorists after he kills one of them during a trip to London. Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Bean, and Richard Harris also star. 117 min. C/Rtg R Clear And Present Danger (1994)In this intense treatment of the hit Tom Clancy novel, Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan is called on to take over ailing superior Vice Admiral Jim Greer's (James Earl Jones) CIA post. Ryan unravels an elaborate scandal involving warring South American drug cartels and stretching from the Colombian jungle to the Oval Office. Willem Dafoe, Donald Moffat, Joaquim de Almeida, and Anne Archer also star. 141 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Sum Of All Fears (2002)Ben Affleck inherits the role of Jack Ryan in this action-packed adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel. When a group of neo-Nazis steals a nuclear bomb, implicating the Russian government, rookie CIA agent Ryan is called in to defuse the situation before all-out war erupts between the U.S. and Russia. With Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan. 123 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit (2014)After accidentally uncovering a Russian terrorist plot to crash the U.S. economy, junior CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is sent to Moscow

Five-disc set includes The Dead Zone (1983)David Cronenberg directs this suspenser from Stephen King's novel about Johnny Smith, a schoolteacher (Christopher Walken) who awakens from a five-year coma to discover he has the ability to see a person's future simply by coming into physical contact with him or her. When Smith is recruited to help the police solve a murder, the horrific psychic visions he experiences make him wonder if his new abilities are a gift or a curse. Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, and Martin Sheen star. 103 min. C/Rtg R Silver Bullet (1985)Based on the Stephen King novella "Cycle of the Werewolf," this intense chiller concerns a small town with a hairy problem. When the residents of the community of Tarker's Mill, Maine, become terrorized by a werewolf, a paralytic boy (Corey Haim), his older sister (Megan Follows), and their uncle (Gary Busey) are forced to try to stop the beast at all costs. Everett McGill, Robin Groves, and Terry O'Quinn also star. 94 min. C/Rtg R Pet Sematary (1989)Spirits moan among the tombstones as Stephen King adapts his own best-seller about a mysterious Indian burial ground with resurrective powers. After the graveyard brings the Creeds' cat back from the dead, the family patriarch hopes it will do the same for his recently deceased son. But when the boy returns as a bloodthirsty murderer, it's up to dad to stop his reign of terror. Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, and Fred Gwynne star. 103 min. C/Rtg R The Stand (1994)The end of the world is just the beginning in the stunning miniseries based on Stephen King's apocalyptic bestseller. A biowarfare experiment goes awry, wiping out nearly all of the world's population, and the remaining survivors are drawn by unknown forces towards the ultimate showdown between the powers of good and evil. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Gia