A dramatization about the behind-the-scenes action preceding the first "Saturday Night Live" broadcast tops the DVD releases for the week of Jan. 7.

"Saturday Night": As "SNL" approaches its 50th anniversary, director Jason Reitman takes on the events leading up to the NBC show's premiere in 1975. Gabriel LaBelle plays Lorne Michaels, and the large cast includes Nicholas Braun, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, J.K. Simmons and Ella Hunt.

"Reitman and the talented young cast manage to make 'Saturday Night' much more than just young actors having fun in bell-bottoms and wigs," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "Though 'Saturday Night,' the film, feels ephemeral and somewhat fleeting, it represents something that has endured, and continues to, through the sheer force of will that is Lorne Michaels."

ALSO NEW ON DVD JAN. 7

"We Live in Time": Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star as a young couple brought together by unforeseen circumstances in this decade-spanning romantic drama from director John Crowley.

"Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat": This documentary examines the historic 1960 United Nations gathering that was crashed by musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach and memorably saw Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev bang his shoe on a desk.

"Things Will Be Different": Following a robbery, two siblings hide from the authorities in a farmhouse that sends them to a different time in this sci-fi thriller.

"Armor": Action flick in which a father-son team guarding an armored truck have to contend with a gang of thieves. Starring Sylvester Stallone and Jason Patric.

"Miracle in Bethlehem, PA": Faith-based TV movie about the mother of an adopted daughter who gets stranded during the holidays and must stay with the innkeeper's bachelor brother.

"Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas": Another Hallmark offering, this one centers on a woman leading a church choir while getting through her first holidays without her mom and reconnecting with a man from her past.

"Beyond the Wasteland": A young boy struggles to survive in a dystopian world decimated by a deadly virus in this sci-fi horror thriller.

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