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Malcolm in the Middle - The Complete First Season

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE - THE COMPLETE FIR (DVD
EAN: 0024543052951
Format: Subtitled, Color, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Running Time: 360 minutes
Sales Rank: 9369
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 2000



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Product Description:
Now you can own the complete first season of 'Malcolm In The Middle'.See how it all began for boy genius Malcolm and his disorderly demented (and downright dysfunctional) family. Share the laughter and relive the fun with all 16 hilarious Season One Episodes - available for the first time in this exclusive 3-disc collector's edition.System Requirements:Starring Frankie Muniz Running time: 360 minutes Copyright Twentieth Century Fox 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 024543052951 Manufacturer No: 2005295

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In the words of They Might Be Giants' rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, 'life is unfair.' The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual 'yes, me worry' expression, Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm, whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ (as discovered in the pilot episode), but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), his obsessive, control-freak mother; Hal (Bryan Cranston), his loving but ineffectual father; Francis (Christopher Masterson), his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school; middle brother Reese (Justin Berfield), a delinquent savant; and Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan), the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point, 'This family may be rude, loud and gross, and have no shame whatsoever, but with them you know where you stand.'

This three-disc set contains all 16 episodes from the irreverently funny first season. The series instantly toned things down a tad from the pilot episode that saw Lois body-shaving a naked hirsute Hal in the kitchen. But it brilliantly sustains its subversive tone, from episode two, in which the brothers stand united against Lois's increasingly desperate methods to uncover who burned her red dress, to the season finale, in which Malcolm dares to push her down a water slide. Not that there aren't sublimely sweet moments, as in that season finale when Dewey bonds with his elderly babysitter (Bea Arthur!) over Abba's 'Fernando.' Before you get out your handkerchiefs, said sitter collapses and is carted away in an ambulance. --Donald Liebenson



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Incredibly Funny
When Malcolm in the Middle first hit American TV screens it was something that was never seen before, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Exceptionally funny show
Malcolm in the Middle was one of the most creative shows ever put on television. It was an excellent ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - So funny!!
Come on guys!! Don't make us beg!! Give us season 2!!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fantastic DVD for the not so usual TV family
I started watching Malcolm in the Middle on TV in Spring of 2007 and instantly fell in love. Once I found ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Loved this series
I can't wait for the other seasons to come out. I love this show.

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