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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381233124
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 9
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2005
Running Time: 1140 minutes
Sales Rank: 18882
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1995
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Description:
Unknown forces conspire to erase the identity of photographer Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood, I, Robot), and without warning, every aspect of his life is erased during the course of one evening. His wife acts as if he's a stranger, his credit cards are suddenly invalid, his keys no longer fit the door to his home and in one way or another, his family and friends are silenced. Completely alone, Veil sets out on a desperate cross-country quest for an answer while eluding his powerful and unknown enemy. His only clue to the possible motivation behind the harrowing ordeal is the disappearance of one of his photographs, 'Hidden Agenda,' which depicts the execution of natives in a war-torn Third World country. SPECIAL FEATURES: - Audio and video commentaries (Larry Hertzog, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Dunne, Steve Rodman, Art Monterastelli and Ian Toynton) - Interviews (Larry Hertzog, Art Monterastelli, Guy Magar, Steve Rodman, Bruce Greenwood, Michael Levine, Megan Gallagher) - Deleted and extended scenes - Promotional spots - Outtakes - Featurette -- 'Networking' (UPN executive Mike Sullivan and series creator Larry Hertzog reminisce) - Featurette -- 'Fact or Fiction?' (an anonymous ex-CIA operative reveals real world government conspiracies, mind control techniques and how fragile our identity really is)
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Great, but end is a downer
My personal opinion is that Nowhere Man was a terrific tv show- far above the lame action-laced pap that dominates in such series as CSI, Law And Order, 24, or Alias, despite Jennifer Garner's babeoliciousness. It, like The Prisoner, was about something, and Hertzog admits that he viewed the show as an anthology series exploring loneliness, with the Organization as a mere spur for those perambulations of the character of Tom Veil. Yet, despite its debt to The Prisoner, Nowhere Man explores many of the same themes from the other end of the spectrum. Tom Veil wanders through his society that does not see him, while John Drake, as Number Six, is physically cut off from his society. Both battle a network of mysterious malefactors, but Veil's fate seems the worse of the two, because, at the end of his series he is still in anomy, whereas John Drake has been restored to his life, his wish to resign just a fleeting desideratum. This may be partly explained by the fact that Patrick McGoohan had total control over The Prisoner while Lawrence Hertzog lost control of Nowhere Man. Despite that, while Nowhere Man does not reach the heights its predecessor did, it remains one of the great achievements of action television- thought-provoking, well-acted, and with a number of terrific episodes, most notably the first twelve. And almost as influential on the show as The Prisoner was were the film The Manchurian Candidate, and the tv show The Fugitive.
If we take the end of the series as its true ... Read More
Rating:  - Really wanted to like this
I was excited to learn of this show and must say the premise is enticing: a man who loses his life and wants to get it back. How in the world could you blow a great idea like this? Stay tuned.
It all begins with our hero going to the restroom and returning to find a restaurant full of amnesiacs: another couple is sitting at his table and and the waiter denies having ever seen him or his wife. Not just his wife and the waiter are in on the conspiracy, but somehow all 30 people in the restaurant are in on it as well, as they all play their parts.
He quickly discovers they've canceled his phone, changed the keys to every lock, recalled his bank card, gotten his wife a new husband, retrained the dog, and basically zeroed out his life. Hmm, that's a lot of work to get done over dinner. Instead of having to enlist entire restaurants full of people and deploy multiple teams of locksmiths, computer hackers, and animal trainers to frantically get the work done while the guy is having dinner, why didn't they just do it all after he'd gone to bed so they could take their time? Never occurs to them.
They can be forgiven that, since it never occurs to our hero to track anyone from the restaurant down to ask them what happened that night. Instead, our hero wanders around the country being chased by the bad guys (every episode) and captured by them (every other episode). They mobilize entire military units to track him, and suffer heavy casualties: a half dozen foot soldiers ... Read More
Rating: - An oddly enchanting hodgepodge
What would you do if you were enjoying a steak dinner with your wife, slipped off to the boy's room for some relief, and returned to the dining room only to find your wife gone, a strange couple at your table, and a maitre d' (plus staff) who no longer recognize you? Eventually, you'd head to the ATM for cab fare home, only to find you'd been erased from the bank's memory, you'd arrive at your doorstep to find said wife claiming she doesn't have a clue who you are, and to add to it all, she's living with another guy who threatens you.
As you dig deeper you'd connect it to the fact you are a successful photographer named Tom Veil (played with considerable aplomb by Bruce Greenwood) whose recent show featured a black and white photograph of several men hung from the gallows, being watched by someone who suspiciously resembles a cigar-chomping American marine with a jeep. Does this photograph - and the negatives, which some shadowy group wants - form the centerpiece of the next 24 episodes? You guess :-)
This is the opening of Nowhere Man, conceived by (now) 24's Larry Hertzog, and offered on the (then) new UPN for a single 1995-96 season. For the next 24 episodes, Greenwood's Tom Veil becomes a man without a country, or bank account, or whatever it is he needs at the moment to get to the bottom of the 'organization' who is making his life miserable and attempting to acquire the negatives. What we get is a roller coaster ride, in both concept and excecution. Hertzog conceived the ... Read More
Rating: - Great, but where is Strange Luck?!?
Nowhere Man was a wonderful TV show that ignorant executives cancelled before it even had a chance. It's great that so many old, cancelled classics are finally coming to DVD, but what about STRANGE LUCK?
Strange Luck was, in my humble opinion, an even better show than Nowhere Man, but no one has released the complete series of Strange Luck on DVD.
Thanks for giving me Nowhere Man, but give me Strange Luck already!!!
Rating:  - My favorite
This series is one of the best series i have seen. I have waited so long to be able to buy this series on dvd.
Now i can enjoy this series whenever i want :)
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