"Director: Arthur Seidelman"

• The Hollywood Drama Box Set | DVD | (30/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five great dramas in one amazing value box set! Drunks 'Drunks' dramatizes an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from beginning to end as characters discuss their bout with the bottle. The attendees include Jim who falls off the wagon during the meeting; Louis who is obviously still in denial about his addiction; and Joseph whose drinking caused a drunk-driving death. Others at the meeting from a twenty-something slacker to a well-to-do doctor illustrate the wide range of people affected and sometimes destroyed by alcoholism. The Trial An adaptation by Harold Pinter of Franz Kafka's classic novel about one man's paranoia and persecution. Josef K. for no reason he can imagine is suddenly arrested. As he wanders through a maze of bureaucracy declaring his innocence he becomes more and more entangled in the system putting himself in ever greater danger. And no matter what he does he can't make the nightmare end... Original Intent Jessica Cameron works for a high-powered Los Angeles ad agency. Her husband Matthew is a successful attorney. Although they are happy with their career-driven lives they reconsider their values after Matthew's old college pal Alex drops in for a visit. The guest convinces Matthew to come to the rescue of a homeless shelter that a cold-blooded developer has been trying to shut down. However a major complication develops for the lawyer when he learns that his wife's company represents the villain in another capacity. Power Of Attorney An assistant D.A. becomes obsessed with a mafia chief who he had originally vowed to prosecute and put away for good but finds that he must defend him instead when he leaves the district attorney's office to work for a private law firm who represents the mob... Walking Across Egypt This adaptation of the touching Clyde Edgerton novel stars Ellen Burstyn as Mattie Rigsbee a churchgoing lady in a Deep Southern town whose grown children--a stodgy son (Judge Reinhold) and cold daughter (Gail O'Grady)--have left her lacking for companionship. That need is filled when she makes the acquaintance of the town's dogcatcher played by an unrecognizable Mark Hamill in a scroungy and unexpectedly funny character turn. Through him she makes the acquaintance of his orphaned nephew Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) a troubled delinquent doing time for car theft. In the unloved teen Mattie sees the chance to practice her Christian ideals of helping the lesser of these thy brethren. In Mattie Wesley sees a chance to get food and cash. Will her religious beliefs be enough to put up with such a troubled and unappreciative child?

• The Hollywood Action Box Set 2 | DVD | (30/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five great action films in one amazing value box set! Hired To Kill Frank Ryan (international star Brian Thompson) is a soldier of fortune. Hired by a powerful organisation to infiltrate a volatile Middle East country his job will be to locate jailed rebel leader Petros Rallis (screen legend Jos'' Ferrer) then free him - or kill him. Either result will ignite a revolution and destroy the present regime. Ryan's unscrupulous boss Willard Thomas (screen legend and Naked Gun straight man George Kennedy) recruits six beautiful but deadly women who will enter Cypra disguised as fashion models on tour. Though Ryan is in charge of the operation he doesn't like the set up one bit. Explosive action follows in this dynamic thriller that delivers the goods with sexy results... Frank And Jesse With the Civil War over Frank and Jesse James (Bill Paxton and Rob Lowe) retreat to the family farm where they witness the murder of their younger brother while Yankee soldiers turn their backs. The James boys feel they have no choice but to seek their own justice. They join the younger brothers to form a gang of rebels that wage a bloody war against its corrupt enemies in robbing their banks stagecoaches and train. In retaliation their adversaries hire famed detective Allan Pinkerton (William Atherton) to stop them. When his nephew is gunned down by the James Gang Pinkerton vows he will not rest until the day the notorious brothers are brought to justice at the end of a rope... A Father's Revenge It's a parent's worst nightmare a kidnapped child. Paul and Anne Hobart (Brian Dennehy and Joanna Cassidy) watch their television screen in disbelief as their only daughter reads a prepared statement saying that she is a prisoner of war. Karin Hobart is being used as a pawn between a terrorist group and the government that has arrested their comrades. The terrorists promise that she and her fellow captives will be executed if their demands are not met. As the terrorists' deadline approaches Paul Hobart becomes desperate to rescue Karin. When he receives word from the State Department that the United States will not interfere Paul takes matters into his own hands. Securing the information that helps him locate his daughter Paul plans his assault refusing to become a hostage of terror. Nightmare At Noon A vial containing a mind altering drug is dumped into a lake by a group of armed men led by a mysterious pale-eyes albio (Brion James). Two days later the inhabitants of the local town Canyonlands start to go beserk. A married couple (Wings Hauser and Kimberly Beck) travelling through the town and Sheriff Roy Hank (George Kennedy) are among those caught up in the mayhem... Hercules In New York Bored with life on Mount Olympus Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger in his debut film) decides to visit Earth against the wishes of his father Zeus. Zeus explodes with anger and hurls a thunder-bolt at Hercules who plummets