Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783122663
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783122667
Label: HBO
Manufacturer: HBO
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: HBO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Running Time: 780 minutes
Sales Rank: 1778
Studio: HBO
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 2001
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From Alan Ball the Oscar(r) winning writer of 'American Beauty' comes a series that digs where others fear to tread. When a bus kills Nathaniel Fisher owner of the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home in Los Angeles the tragedy casts a pall on the homecoming of his prodigal son Nate. Together with with mother Ruth brother David and sister Claire they must address the family business and the many more personal matters that arise when your life is Six Feet Under.Running Time: 780 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359913228 Manufacturer No: 99132
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The Fishers are your typical dysfunctional family. Ruth (Frances Conroy) is the stern matriarch who has trouble expressing emotion and snaps at the slightest problem. Daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose) is an underachiever who cultivates a moody, mysterious loner image in high school (she's indulging in illegal substances too). Brother David (Michael C. Hall) works in the family business, and is uptight beyond belief (he's indulging in a secret homosexual relationship too). Elder brother Nate (Peter Krause) is the black sheep, who, eschewing responsibility, fled to Seattle but got lured back. And Dad (Richard Jenkins) watches it all bemusedly. Did we mention Dad's dead? Oh, and that the Fisher family business is a funeral home? It might sound off-putting, but coming from the mind of Alan Ball, the man who strip-mined suburban life to find the mordant wit underneath in American Beauty, Six Feet Under is a trenchant, stylish spin on standard family dysfunction.
This HBO series initially aspired to fits of Twin Peaks-like whimsy, with each episode starting with a death more outlandish than the previous, but soon settled into a comfortable groove that harkened back to the most familiar of TV family dramas (in fact, it's almost a mirror image of '70s drama Family, down to the three sibling archetypes). Of course, its HBO roots allowed it ample leeway with sex, drug usage, profanity, and violence. While the writing strove to be a little too clever, the overall look and tone of the show remained solid and sometimes profound (sometimes absurd too, but usually with good reason). Krause and Hall, as initially warring brothers who come to a wary understanding, are solid anchors, but it's the women in the cast who do the most phenomenal work. Conroy infuses her almost stereotypical mom with an obstinate but ultimately accepting heart, and Ambrose's Claire is by far the show's most appealing character. And stealing scenes left and right is Rachel Griffith's Brenda, a mystery woman with an outlandish backstory who meets Nate on a plane, has sex with him at the airport, and infiltrates his life. Like Brenda herself, Six Feet Under is fascinating--and highly addictive. --Mark Englehart
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- Excellent conditionNot much to say about the movie. Came in excellent condition and in a timely manner.
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- CLOSED CAPTION GLITCH - NEED RESPONSEWe purchased the entire series package and find that on Season I, the closed captioning is ONLY in ... Read More
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- A Review as it should be, on the series, not the PRICE.First off I want to say that a review of a product is not supposed to be about the cost. A buyer can ... Read More
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- Pilot episode stinks, and by the way don't watch with the kidsAdmittedly, I have only seen disc one of the first season, but I am very disappointed so far. The pilot ... Read More
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