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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783118017
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118015
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 680 minutes
Sales Rank: 665
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Amazon.com:
The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.
The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognizable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.
Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatization of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchmen and their various 'associates' make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.
The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr. Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns 'professional,' perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland
Product Description:
On January 10th 1999 America was introduced to two families that would make history: The Soprano family headed by Tony Soprano and The Soprano 'family' headed by ... Tony Soprano. ' 'Four Stars! The first gotta-watch gotta love Gotti-like TV series of 1999. Across the board it's an A-plus.' ' - The New York Post ' 'Achieves a fresh tone to match its irresistibly winning concept.' ' - The New York TimesRunning Time: 680 min.System Requirements:Starring: James Gandolfini Steve Van Zandt Vincent Pastore Aida Turturro Edie Falco Lorraine Bracco Nancy Marchand Dominic Chianese Michael Imperioli Jamie-Lynn Sigler Robert Iler and Tony Sirico. Directed By: David Chase. Running Time: 680 Min. Color. This film is presented in 'Widescreen' format. Copyright 2000 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: UPC: 026359927324 Manufacturer No: 99273
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Beginning of an ICON
The Sopranos Season 1 was the very beginning of the what was to become an icon, larger than life. In Season 1, like many series, the writers were finding their groove and the cast was working out their characters. A lot of what goes on or begins in season 1 storyline-wise, character-wise, plays a large part seasons to come. Sort of the beginning of a croched blanket.
If you are new to the Sopranos, I HIGHLY recommend it. Season 1 is a little slower going, but even with the quirks, it's a great first season. I didn't think I'd enjoy the series, as I'm not a mafia movie fan, but The Sopranos has so much more than just that. It's really more about family, similar to a soap opera. If you give it a chance, I'm sure you'll be pleased you did.
Rating: - Perfect
Its the sopranos, its #1, its perfect. Amazon is the only place to get a good deal on it.
Rating:  - NO Closed Captioning
First, let me say that I'm an avid Sopranos fan. I put the first-season DVD on my Amazon wish list and was thrilled when I was given it as a gift. I have a hearing problem and always use closed captioning while watching TV and videos. I have been disappointed to find that some DVDs that list CC don't actually have it. Unfortunately, The Sopranos: First Season is one of them. Yes, I do know how to use the DVD menu to select closed-captioning, but the only options listed are for quality of sound or the languages Spanish or French. Since my TV is always set for CC, that shouldn't be the problem. Consequently, I have to turn up the volume considerably, but still miss some of the dialogue.
Rating: - I have HBO on demand so i don't need to buy the boxsets
This is a great show but i subscribed to HBO on demand and that has this on it. It shows all the soprano shows and its great, the shows are real dramatic with great acting, great setting and performence. This season was great but after this season they changed tony sopranos voice and it sounds kinda funny the way he talk at some lines, but i wonder why they changed his voice but this was a great season. I saw all the soprano seasons on HBO on demand and they were great, if you have io digital cable then thats more better when you want to watch movies, watch shows, watch animation and all those other stuff, thats what i did to the sopranos and its better then just spending 99.00 on a boxset cause thats how much the soprano boxset cost at stores but i have HBO on demand and thats better, and it shows all the soprano seasons and i watched them, so this was a great season.
Rating: - I LOVELOVELOVE the first season....
By far, this is the best of the seasons. Of course, I should hold my tongue because I still haven't seen season 6, but my interest began to cool with season four. With some series, it takes a season or two to really 'find' itself and define its characters, but not this one. I laughed, I was shocked, and I was utterly impressed.
Take it from a Godfather I and II addict (and Goodfellas), this is phenomenal.
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