| Product Summary | | Publisher: Paramount | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00097361231242 | | Buy.com Sku: 204323427 | | Item#: V2HS96 | | Category Keywords: Thriller | Rating:  |
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Spine-tingling suspense, ethereal espionage, and international intrigue highlight this exclusive Harrison Ford Triple Feature. Catch the blockbuster action star in three of his greatest hits: WITNESS, PATRIOT GAMES, and WHAT LIES BENEATH!WITNESS: When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective John Book. Harrison Ford is sensational as Book, the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community. The end result is an action packed struggle of life and death, interwoven with a sensitive undercurrent of caring and forbidden love. PATRIOT GAMES: Harrison Ford stars as Jack Ryan in this explosive thriller based on Tom Clancy's international best-seller. His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife (Anne Archer, Fatal Attraction) and child (Thora Birch, All I Want for Christmas). Meeting his family outside of Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on Lord Holmes (James Fox, The Russia House), a member of the Royal Family. Ryan helps to thwart Holmes' assailants and becomes a local hero. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorist (Sean Bean, Stormy Monday) whose brother he killed. Now Ryan must return to action for the most vital assignment of his life: to save his family. Co-starring James Earl Jones (The Hunt for Red October). WHAT LIES BENEATH: In this exciting supernatural thriller, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret...a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them. When Claire Spencer (Pfeiffer) begins seeing ghostly images and hearing mysterious voices in their home, her husband Norman (Ford) suspects it's just her imagination--until the images turn real. Now, together they must uncover the truth, confront their worst fears and find WHAT LIES BENEATH...with twisting and terrifying results.
"[Beneath] A stunningly terrifying first class thriller!" Dennis Cunningham, WCBS-TV
"[Patriot] A knuckle-biter!" Gene Shalit, Today
"[Patriot] A first rate thriller! Harrison Ford is perfect!" Pat Collins, WWOR-TV
"[Beneath] You'll sleep with the lights on...if you can sleep." Pat O'Brien, Access Hollywood
"[Witness] A dynamic, thoughtful thriller that balances its themes extraordinarily well." Rob Thomas, Capital Times
"[Witness] ...gripping and engrossing..." Shannon J. Harvey, Sunday Times
Editor's Note
This collection presents a triple feature of blockbusters starring leading man Harrison Ford: in WITNESS (1985), a Philadelphia cop poses as a member of the Amish community to hide from his murderous peers; in PATRIOT GAMES (1992), an ex-CIA agent goes back into service when he saves an English minister from an IRA terrorist attack; and in WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000), a scientist and his wife begin to suspect that their new house is haunted. See individual titles for further plot details.
| Features | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Original Theatrical Trailer | | [All] Scene Selection | | [Beneath] HBO's Popular First Look Behind-The-Scenes Featurette | | [Beneath] Audio: English DTS 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Beneath] Insightful Audio Commentary From Award-Winning Director Robert Zemeckis | | [Beneath] Production Notes & Detailed Cast & Filmmaker Bios | | [Beneath] Subtitles: English | | [Patriot] Subtitles: Spanish | | [Witness, Patriot] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Witness, Patriot] Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Witness, Patriot] Dubbed: French | | [Witness] Interview With Peter Weir |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 7/24/2007 |
| Running Time: 358 minutes |
| Catalog ID: 123124 | | UPC: 00097361231242 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen/Widescreen 1.85:1/2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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Winner (1986) | | | British Academy Awards, Maurice Jarre, [Witness] Best Score | | | Oscar, Thom Noble, [Witness] Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, William Kelley, et. al., [Witness] Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | |
Nominee (1986) | | | Oscar, Harrison Ford, [Witness] Best Actor in a Leading Role | | | Oscar, Peter Weir, [Witness] Best Director | | | Oscar, Edward S. Feldman, [Witness] Best Picture | | | Oscar, Stan Jolley, John H. Anderson, [Witness] Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | | | Oscar, John Seale, [Witness] Best Cinematography | | | Oscar, Maurice Jarre, [Witness] Best Music, Original Score |
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| | Professional Reviews | FilmCritic.com 7 of 10
[Patriot] Out with Alec Baldwin and in with Harrison Ford -- as CIA analyst Jack Ryan becomes caught up in an international incident again as he lectures in London, throwing so much action at us that we are meant to forget they switched the lead actors on us...Turns out it doesn't matter much. Ford is of course a talented action/adventure hero, maybe the best ever. It's too bad that this Jack Ryan adventure has less epic-ness than Red October; it's written small, with Ryan caught up in an IRA attack on British bigwigs...It ain't exactly saving the world, but Patriot Games's earnestness belies its ultimate simplicity and smallness...Sean Bean was actually early in his scowling bad guy phase when Patriot Games came out, a stereotype he's yet to shed. Anne Archer's eyebrows alone are worth half a star... - Christopher Null
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
[Witness] Witness comes billed as a thriller, but it's so much more than a thriller that I wish they hadn't even used the word "murder" in the ads. This is, first of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Only then is it a thriller - one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make...[Director Weir] has a strong and sure feeling for places, for the land, for the way that people build their self-regard by the way they do their work...Harrison Ford has never given a better performance in a movie. Kelly McGillis, the young actress who plays the Amish widow, has a kind of luminous simplicity about her; it is refreshing and even subtly erotic to see a woman who doesn't subscribe to all the standard man-woman programmed responses of modern society...It is a movie about adults, whose lives have dignity and whose choices matter to them. And it is also one hell of a thriller. - Roger Ebert
Reel.com 8 of 10
[Beneath] In his latest film, What Lies Beneath, Zemeckis pays tribute to Roman Polanski in his heyday, evoking shades of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby with subtle, intelligent, and damn scary suspense ... for 70 minutes or so. Then Beneath takes a half-hour breather of tepid Sixth Sense-wannabe spookiness, lurches back into high gear to drop a few shocking plot twists, and finally limps toward a stock Hollywood ending...Only in the final half-hour does Zemeckis fall back on tried-and-tired Tinseltown formulas, although some truly unpredictable story developments almost make up for the standard-issue clueless-heroine-doing-harebrained-things horror ending. (Note to self: when fleeing certain death in a motor vehicle, do not stop to use the cell phone - just keep driving, OK?) Too bad Beneath's silly climax scuppers what might've been a classic thriller; like its director, it'll have to be content with being second-best. - Tor Thorsen
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