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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783127927
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783127928
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 775 minutes
Sales Rank: 289
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 2002
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Product Description:
From David Simon creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner this unvarnished highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn.Running Time: 780 min.System Requirements:Running Time 780 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359887321 Manufacturer No: 98873
Amazon.com:
After one episode of The Wire you'll be hooked. After three, you'll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series' remarkable first season, you'll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece. Series creator David Simon was a veteran crime reporter from The Baltimore Sun who cowrote the book that inspired TV's Homicide, and cowriter Ed Burns was a Baltimore cop, lending impeccable street-cred to an inner-city Baltimore saga (and companion piece to The Corner) that Simon aptly describes as 'a visual novel' and 'a treatise on institutions and individuals' as opposed to a conventional good-vs.-evil police procedural. Owing a creative debt to the novels of Richard Price (especially Clockers), the series opens as maverick Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West, in a star-making role) is tapping into a vast network of drugs and death around southwest Baltimore's deteriorating housing projects. With a mandate to get results ASAP, a haphazard team is assembled to join McNulty's increasingly complex investigation, built upon countless hours of electronic surveillance.
The show's split-perspective plotting is so richly layered, so breathtakingly authentic and based on finely drawn characters brought to life by a perfect ensemble cast, that it defies concise description. Simon, Burns, and their cowriters control every intricate aspect of the unfolding epic; directors are top-drawer (including Clark Johnson, helmer of The Shield's finest episodes), but they are servants to the story, resulting in a TV series like no other: unpredictable, complicated, and demanding the viewer's rapt attention, The Wire is 'an angry show' (in Simon's words) that refuses to comfort with easy answers to deep-rooted societal problems. Moral gray zones proliferate in a universe where ruthless killers have a logical code, and where the cops are just as ambiguous as their targets. That ambiguity extends to the ending as well; season 1 leaves several issues unresolved, leaving you begging for the even more impressive developments that await in season 2. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Ruined Me for Law & Order
I used to watch Law & Order as I dozed off some nights, I always liked that show. However, after watching season one of The Wire, I can't watch L&O anymore, because in comparison it's just a pile of cool puke.
I started watching this after Sopranos ended, and it's no sopranos. But what is? This is great, better than most police movies you've seen, much less TV.
An especially gratifying thing about this season is the epilogue. It actually ends, not depending on any contrived cliffhangers to try to get me to watch the next season, something even Sopranos did. So of course I will watch the next season, as the producers have earned my trust. I can't wait!
Rating: - Missed it on HBO... great alternative to post-writer's strike summer TV wasteland
Best television ever made? Possibly. When there's nothing on, catching up on seasons of The Wire, Rescue Me, and Mad Men is keeping me sane.
Rating:  - episode 3 incomplete
The Wire is a great show. The copy I ordered was defective (one episode cut short). Then the next copy was shipped and part of the case was broke.
Rating: - Absolutely Near Perfect ...
To anyone who hasn't seen 'The Wire' I cant express in strong enough terms how good this series is. Every ingredient required to make an unforgettable crime/drama series is found in this show. From the writing and dialogue to the acting and pace of the events that take place 'The Wire' is among the best, if not the best, that has ever been seen. I have seen all 5 seasons and they are all excellent. If you expect television programs, as I do, to depict life in an urban area to remain true to reality and be as authentic as possible then you will love this show. I've recently tried to watch popular crime dramas such as 'Law & Order' and others and I honesty laugh out loud at how contrived the stories are and how untrue to life the dialogue is. If you don't know what I'm saying then start with season 1 of 'The Wire' and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Rating: - HBO scores again with one of the best TV shows in recent history
HBO scores another great TV show with The Wire. This show is so addicting and the writing is just fantastic. You cannot watch this show casually, you must pay attention. If you do so you will not regret it.
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