Any Number Can Play - DVD

William H. Macy, Scott Caan. A gripping drama unfolds when the crew members of a German sub are infected with meningitis and things get so bad, their American prisoners onboard are forced to work with them in order to run the sub and to avoid contagion. But the true test comes when they are spotted by an U.S. carrier ship. 2004/color/98 min/R/widescreen.

An aging poet, Younghwan (Ki Joobong), summons his two estranged sons (Kwon Haehyo and Yu Junsang) to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women (Kim Minhee and Song Seonmi) out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds one that walks on the street and the other that communes with the eternal.

Hugh Laurie (InchHouseInch) stars in this riveting British miniseries, playing Leo Hopkins, a grifter addicted to the adrenaline rush of the con. With a seductive secretary and an unscrupulous boss taking advantage of his compulsion to take extreme risks, Hopkins' comfortable and secure life is placed into jeopardy. Can a man devoted to lying ever recognize the truth? Jessica Turner, Pippa Guard, Bob Monkhouse also star. 150 min. Standard; Soundtrack English. Region Free