Starring: Bruno Ganz, Dale Godboldo, Mark Feuerstein, Liev Schreiber, Ciaran Hinds, Blair Underwood, Ron Rifkin, Ken Jenkins, Miguel Ferrer, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Ted Levine, Richard McGonagle, John Beasley, Guy Pearce, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Baker Hall, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dye, Ben Kingsley, Anne Archer, Jon Voight, Tom Stechschulte, Amidou, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright, Ben Affleck, James Cromwell, Bruce McGill, Morgan Freeman, Alan Bates, Tommy Lee Jones

Directed by: Jonathan Demme, Phil Alden Robinson, William Friedkin

Triple-bill of tense military thrillers. In 'The Manchurian Candidate' (2004), Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) fought together in the Gulf War. A few years on, helped along by his reputation as a war hero and his powerful stateswoman mother (Meryl Streep), Shaw is on his way to becoming vice-president. Marco's post-war experience has been very different: plagued with mental health problems, he cannot shift a deepening sense of unease about what exactly happened to him during Operation Desert Storm, particularly with regards to Shaw and his supposed heroic deeds. As he begins to investigate, he meets with powerful resistance from the highest quarters, and begins to wonder if his suspicions might be based on events worse than he could ever have imagined. In 'Rules of Engagement' (2000), directed by William Freidkin, Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a war hero whose peacekeeping mission to Yemen goes horribly wrong when he orders his men to open fire on a group of demonstrators. The colonel is subsequently charged with murder and asks his comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable ability, to defend him at the court martial. But when Hodges starts investigating he is surprised to find evidence that points to a cover-up. In 'The Sum of All Fears' (2002), America's security community is on edge. The Russian premier has just died and been replaced by President Zorkin (Richard Marner) a man whose international ambitions are something of an unknown quantity. Fortunately seasoned CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) is on hand to profile the man in the hot seat. But then the USA's worst fear comes true when Baltimore is struck by a nuclear device during a football game. Ryan's boss Cabot (Morgan Freeman), is convinced this isn't really a Russian strike and dispatches Ryan to uncover the truth before the USA and Russian Federation slide into WWIII. A shadowy terrorist group might just hold the key.

Technical Details

Certification: 15
Duration: 370 mins
Format: DVD
Region: 2
Cat. No: PHE8849(PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT (UK))
Category: Thriller:General