Outland

On Jupiter's moon he's theonly lawProductInformationIn Outland Jupiter's innermost moon Io hosts mining colony Con-Am27 a high-tech hellhole.  There Marshal William T. O'Niel(Connery) probes some mysterious deaths among the miners.  Inpursuit of the truth he's alone.  In Outland writer/directorPeter Hyams depicts a chilling extension of today's corporation-drivenworld.  Dehumanization is vividly evoked in the environmentsof production designer Philip Harrison and special-effects wizard JohnStears.Product Features Interactive Menus Production Notes Scene Access Theatrical TrailerSpecifications Stars:  Sean Connery FrancesSternhagen James B. Sikking Format:  Color DVD-Video Language:  English Spanish Subtitles:   English SpanishFrench Rating:  R Number of Discs: 1 Run Time:  110 minutes Directed By:  Peter Hyams

Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) restages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an amphetamine-like work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months--until they finally snap and go berserk. When Boyle sends killer henchmen to neutralize the lawman, O'Neil is unable to get the miners to back him up. Outland is no classic, but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. Also starring Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking (Howard on television's Hill Street Blues), and John Ratzenberger (later to become famous as Cliff on the sitcom Cheers). --Jim Emerson