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Alias - The Complete First Season

starring: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman, Victor Garber
directed by: Barnet Kellman, Craig Zisk, Daniel Attias, Davis Guggenheim, Harry Winer

: Alias - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788847202
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0788847201
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 1007 minutes
Sales Rank: 3481
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002



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Description:
Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jennifer Garner (Best Actress In A Television Series, 2002) is Sydney Bristow. Syd's not exactly your average grad student. Her life might appear normal, but she's hiding a secret life working as a spy for the CIA. Sydney's world is turned upside down when she learns she may work for the very enemy she thought she was fighting. Now she's entangled in a covert lifestyle where she is forced to question the allegiances of everyone, including those closest to her. Entertainment Weekly says ALIAS is 'a spy-fi roller coaster of killer gadgets, double roundkicks, triple crosses, poignant confessionals, cliff-hangers, sliced-off fingers, conspiracies, outrageous outfits, exotic locales, flirtations, mythologies -- and that's just before the first commercial break.' Now see the 22 mesmerizing episodes that launched it all in this 6-disc set. You'll also experience never-before-seen extras that give you special access inside the world of ALIAS. See the show everyone has been talking about that has redefined series television. This edge-of-your-seat collection with its heart-pounding action of unpredictable plot twists will have you gasping for air and begging for Season 2!

Amazon.com:
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd!

Confusing? This is all just in the first episode of Alias, the brainchild of Felicity creator J.J. Abrams that plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart, and always suspenseful, Alias' center was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first season, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart



Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great show
We decided to watch Alias and are glad we did! It is a version of 24-lots of action!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Stunning Heroine, Fabulous Script, Interesting Plots and Victor Garber
Most television series acknowledge the importance of the first season, a precursor to the however ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An Excellent Spy-Action Series Much Better Than I First Thought
A friend of mine who's a big fan of the show first introduced me to this series at first I thought ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great Season
Great season to watch. First couple episodes you could tell they didn't have as much funding, but it ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best season of Alias by far, you won't be able to turn it off!
Alias was a great show through the entire season, but the first season is by far the best. If you never ... Read More

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