The Hunt for Red October (Blu-ray)

Widescreen/Blu-ray. PG rating. Hunt for Red October. A contemplative thriller by early 1990's standards, the Hunt for Red October was the first movie based on the successful Jack Ryan novels of Tom Clancy. Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. In the movie, Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect Robbed of much of the book's Cold War appeal by the time of it's release, the movie was nonetheless embraced by American audiences; it was among the ten highest-grossing movies of 1990.

Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Clancy, Anatoli Davydov, Larry Ferguson, A.C. Lyles, Amanda Mackey-Johnson, Arthur Cybulski, Boris Krutonog, Courtney Vance, David Sederholm, Denise E. James, Don Oscar Smith, George H. Billy, George Winston, Herman Sinitzyn, Ivan G'Vera, John McTiernan Sr., Kenton Kovell, Louise Borras, Mark Draxton, Michael George Benko, Michael Welden, Peter Zinner, Reed Popovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Sven Ole Thorsen, Tom Fisher, Tony Veneto, Vlado Benden, William Bell Sullivan, Joss Ackland, Courtney B. Vance, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Jordan, Tim Curry, Peter Firth, Timothy Carhart, Fred Dalton Thompson, Daniel Davis, Ned Vaughn, Anthony Peck, Thomas Fisher, Pete Antico, Ronald Guttman, Tomas Arana, Anatoly Davydov, Artur Cybulski, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Boris Lee Krutonog, Radu Gavor, Ivan Ivanov, Ping Wu, Christopher Janczar, Rick Ducommun, Andrew Divoff, Ben Hartigan, George Saunders, Ray Reinhardt, F.J. O'Neil, Robert Buckingham, John McTiernan, Donald Stewart, John Shepherd, Gates McFadden, Stanley

Director: Andrew Scheinman, Bridget Johnson, Bruce S. Pustin, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Sherlock, Larry de Waay, Mace Neufeld

Rating: PG