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Steven Spielberg Presents Taken

starring: Julie Benz, Catherine Dent, Jason Gray-Stanford, Tina Holmes, Michael Moriarty

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: SPIELBERG,STEVEN
EAN: 9780783280806
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783280807
Label: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Manufacturer: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Running Time: 885 minutes
Sales Rank: 7657
Studio: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Theatrical Release Date: December 02, 2002



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Product Description:
Spanning four generations, the stories of three families' extraterrestrial encounters.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: UN
Release Date: 10-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD

Amazon.com:
Steven Spielberg's alien abduction opus Taken is what happens when you cross-breed Close Encounters of the Third Kind with The Waltons. Obviously flushed with the success of the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, Spielberg's Dreamworks studio has created an equally epic 10-part story chronicling 50 years of habitual abduction over several generations of three American families. Beginning with the most notorious alien cover-up in U.S. history, the 1947 'crash' at Roswell, New Mexico, Taken introduces the 'Greys' and the families they routinely abduct, probe, and, in a couple of cases, impregnate over the course of the ten 90-minute episodes. The three families are: the Keys, from which first Russell, then his son Jessie, then grandson Danny, are all abducted; the Clarkes, who are descended from a liaison between lonely put-upon housewife Sally Clarke and one of the Roswell crash survivors; and the Crawfords, the ruthless G-men who are committed to uncovering the purpose behind the alien visitations at any cost.

It's this question that forms the main thread of the story: but even though the Greys' actions are at best ambiguous and at worst hostile, the viewer can't help feeling that after all this systematic abuse of their human test subjects the aliens will in the end present them with a cure for cancer. In fact, Taken is Spielberg at his most touchy-feely: for all its science fiction trappings it's basically a soap opera, lacking the sinister undercurrent of either Dark Skies or The X-Files. Nevertheless, it's an engaging series with decent performances--most notably Joel Gretsch as psychotic Owen Crawford--good special effects, and an engaging enough storyline to make it entertaining, if somewhat disposable, TV. --Kristen Bowditch



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - watched it multple times
the only sink hole in the whole thing is when it shows that Lubbock, Texas has mountains in the background!!! ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Engaging
This is a DVD series which our whole family looked forward to watching every night, as long as it lasted. The ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Suprisingly good television
I love sci-fi and this is an engrossing story. Actors performances are great and I like the way the mini-series ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A Mediocre Melodrama with Very Little Alien : Disappointing
First of all, if you approach "Taken" with the intent to savor some special effects or gaze upon various sorts of aliens ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not a real Sci Fi fan, but this is great drama!
I'm not a rabid Sci Fi fan, but this series is so character-driven and so reliant on everyday human beings to tell the story ... Read More

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