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Oz - The Complete First Season

starring: Christopher Farmer
directed by: Gregory Dark

: Oz - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783120669
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783120664
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 451 minutes
Sales Rank: 3197
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1997



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Product Description:
From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man Diner) and Tom Fontana OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims Latinos Italians Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies. OZ is a wake-up call.Running Time: 480 min.System Requirements:Running Time 451 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359920424 Manufacturer No: 99204

Amazon.com:
HBO's violent men-behind-bars drama is an addictive, testosterone-driven soap opera for guys. The eight episodes of the first season set the style for the show: a massive cast of a vivid characters on both sides of the bars, four or five stories unleashed at a breakneck pace and framed by angry, oddball introductions, and a soaring casualty rate. Created by Homicide producer Tom Fontana, this drama quickly earned its rightful reputation as the most brutal show on TV. It's simple chemistry: combine volatile ingredients in a confined space, shut tight, and shake.

The yellow brick road of the Oswald Correctional Facility (affectionately known as 'Oz' among the inmates) leads to 'Emerald City,' an antiseptic cellblock of cement and glass overseen by prison-reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). The first episode introduces its two most compelling inmates: meek lawyer Beecher (Lee Terguson), who transforms from a vulnerable lamb to a fearless, drug-addicted wildcat, and Muslim activist Kareem Said (Eamonn Walker), a fiercely non-violent leader whose campaign for reform explodes in a season-climaxing riot. The stunning first-season cast also features Ernie Hudson (the warden), Rita Moreno (a worldly drug-counseling nun), and Edie Falco (who jumped from her role as a single-mother prison guard to mob wife in The Sopranos). It carries no rating, but the drug use, nudity, and brutal violence make this highly inappropriate for young viewers and unsuited to the squeamish. Oz pulls no punches in its portrayal of prison violence and predatory abuse. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - surprise season
I had never seen this season and it came to me quickly and didn't disapoint.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Such a wonderful show!
I own and have watched every episode of OZ ranging from season 1-6. The story is compelling and very ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Put This Show In Prison
Do NOT believe the hype and the 5-star reviews that this show is getting - trust me. Some (but not all) ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great Series........
Oz Season 1 was the first "season" of a tv show I ever owned.

The show is amazing, the characters ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Overrated
I had heard a lot of good reviews about this show from various people over the years. I have to say I was very disappointed. ... Read More

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