Maverick New York tycoon, Tom Mullen is used to mediating tough business deals for his high-tech corporation. But when his son is kidnapped, and an FBI rescue operation goes awry, Tom must mastermind a daring counter measure to get his son back. With time running out, and his wife horrified by her husband's shocking plans, Tom faces the most difficult negotiation of his life and the possibility that his strategy may have already backfired..

Commemorate the 15th anniversary of Ransom – a critically acclaimed smash hit starring Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson (Best Director, 1995, Braveheart) and directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard (Best Director, 2001, A Beautiful Mind) – on Blu-ray for the first time with an incredible new digital restoration! Tom Mullen (Gibson) is a wealthy executive whose life is suddenly shattered when a gang of ruthless criminals abducts his young son and holds him for ransom. But it’s the kidnappers who are shocked when Mullen boldly turns the tables in a last-ditch effort to rescue his boy. Rene Russo (Thor) and Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) join an excellent cast in a brilliant thriller that pays off with non-stop excitement!

In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature.
 
This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.