The Sopranos: The Complete First Season
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783118017
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118015
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 680 minutes
Sales Rank: 1318
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Product Description:
On January 10th 1999 America was introduced to two families that would make history: The Soprano family headed by Tony Soprano and The Soprano 'family' headed by ... Tony Soprano. ' 'Four Stars! The first gotta-watch gotta love Gotti-like TV series of 1999. Across the board it's an A-plus.' ' - The New York Post ' 'Achieves a fresh tone to match its irresistibly winning concept.' ' - The New York TimesRunning Time: 680 min.System Requirements:Starring: James Gandolfini Steve Van Zandt Vincent Pastore Aida Turturro Edie Falco Lorraine Bracco Nancy Marchand Dominic Chianese Michael Imperioli Jamie-Lynn Sigler Robert Iler and Tony Sirico. Directed By: David Chase. Running Time: 680 Min. Color. This film is presented in 'Widescreen' format. Copyright 2000 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: UPC: 026359927324 Manufacturer No: 99273
Amazon.com:
The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.
The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognizable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.
Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatization of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchmen and their various 'associates' make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.
The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr. Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns 'professional,' perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland
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- A must have for any Sopranos fan I have watched this over and over again with the same enjoyment that I experienced about 8 years ago ... Read More
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- The Beginning of an ICONThe Sopranos Season 1 was the very beginning of the what was to become an icon, larger than life. In ... Read More
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- NO Closed CaptioningFirst, let me say that I'm an avid Sopranos fan. I put the first-season DVD on my Amazon wish list and ... Read More
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- I have HBO on demand so i don't need to buy the boxsetsThis is a great show but i subscribed to HBO on demand and that has this on it. It shows all the soprano ... Read More
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