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Rome - The Complete First Season

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359284823
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 619 minutes
Sales Rank: 3058
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 2005

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
(HBO Dramatic Series) Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic Rome is the wealthiest city in the world a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now those foundations are crumbling eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war two soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A serialized drama of love and betrayal masters and slaves husbands and wives ROME chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of the republic and the birth of an empire.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359284823 Manufacturer No: 92848

Amazon.com:
Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that bloodily splatters the glory of Rome just as savagely as Monty Python and the Holy Grail soiled the good name of Camelot (but with far fewer laughs; very few funny things happen on the way to this forum). Set in 52 B.C. (Before Cable), Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former friends Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham), leader of the Senate, and Julius Caesar (Ciaran Hinds), whose imminent return after eight years to Rome after conquering the Gauls, has the ruling class up in arms. At the heart of Rome is the odd couple friendship between two soldiers who fortuitously become heroes of the people. Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) is married, honorable, and steadfast. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) is an amoral rogue whose philosophy is best summed up, 'I kill my enemies, take their gold, and enjoy their women.' Among Rome's most compelling subplots is Lucius's strained relationship with his wife, Niobe (Indira Varma), who is surprised to see her husband alive (but not as surprised as he is to find her upon his homecoming with a newborn baby in her arms!) Any viewer befuddlement over Rome's intrigues and machinations, and determining who is hero and who is foe, disappears the minute Golden Globe-nominee Polly Walker appears as Atia, Caesar's formidable niece and a villainess for the ages. In the first hour alone, she offers her already married daughter as a bride to the recently widowed Pompey. One eagerly awaits to see what (or who) she'll do next as much as we anticipate her comeuppance in the final episode.

Rome is a painstakingly mounted production that earned eight well-deserved Emmy nominations in such categories as costumes, set design, and art direction. Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter) was honored with a Director's Guild Award for the first episode, 'The Stolen Eagle.' But artistic considerations aside, instantly addicted viewers will agree with Atia, who notes at one point, 'I adore the secrecy, the intrigue. It's most thrilling.' --Donald Liebenson

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Rating: - ROME ON DVD
GREAT SERIES, LOVED THE SERIES AND RECOMMEND IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT, ADDED TO MY COLLECTION!!!!!!!!!1

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Rating: - Let me get right to it......
This was the best mini-series every created. Period. The Casting Director is worth her weight in diamonds ... Read More

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Rating: - First in the series
Everyone else has described the gist of the story so well that anything else I add would be totally superfluous,except ... Read More

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Rating: - Disturbingly vulgar and violent, but worth watching if...
Although the real Rome of Caesar's time was chocked full of sex and violence, the makers of ROME easily could have depicted ... Read More

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Rating: - You love it or hate it...
HBO's Rome is a great television series about that Ancient City. The daily life is perfect in almost every way and the history, ... Read More

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