THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN ★★½

(Starz on Comcast) Nice gnarly take on the dynamics of a family whose young son is kidnapped, then returned nine years later. Michelle Pfeiffer is outstanding as the guilt-ridden, anguished mom. Stephen Schiff’s intelligent screenplay mostly avoids conventional Hollywood responses, though there are compromises in this jaggedly paced and tonally uneven film. (PG-13; runs through Sept. 27)

MAJOR LEAGUE ★★½

(Cinemax on Comcast) This baseball comedy about a Cleveland Indians team of misfits that gets it together isn’t going to lead any league in originality. But it’s adequate, with likable performances by Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen, as a veteran catcher and rookie pitcher. Neither of them do themselves any favor, however, by inviting comparisons to “Bull Durham.” (R; runs through Oct. 4)

POSSE ★★★

(Comcast Free Movies) Mario Van Peebles’s revisionist western makes room for the historically real but cinematically invisible African-American cowboy. This rousing and colorful (in both senses of the word) outing is a film you can respect as well as enjoy as Van Peebles slips into a Sergio Leone mode to pull the trigger on white-macho-imperialist myth-building. (R; runs through Oct. 15)