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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051288721
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 342 minutes
Sales Rank: 10747
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description:
Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle ... and sometimes the kids... Blisteringly funny offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona who looks after Carl Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped more often hindered by streetwise 'Lip' and the actively gay but very private Ian. Welcome to the hectic world of sexual adventures triumphs love scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.Running Time: 342 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 794051288721 Manufacturer No: E2887
Amazon.com:
This 'top (effen) notch' BBC series is set in a Manchester, England, public-housing project where the Gallagher clan gets by with a little help from their friends and each other. They certainly can't count on Frank (David Threfall), their on-the-dole dad, whose time around the house is mostly spent drunkenly passed out on the floor. Mom abandoned them years before. That leaves Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff), the eldest daughter, to be surrogate parent and help make the best of their hardscrabble lives in a place that, Frank observes, will never be mistaken for the Garden of Eden. The seven episodes that comprise the first series are a riot of family dysfunction. Cheeky oldest brother Lip (Jody Latham) discovers his younger sibling, Ian (Gerard Kearns), is gay and is having an affair with the local Muslin grocer. He enlists his girlfriend, Karen (Rebecca Atkinson), to initiate Ian (to no avail). Karen's agoraphobic mother, Sheila (Maggie O'Neill) is married to a religious fanatic, who abandons them after he discovers his daughter's sinful ways, opening the door for Frank to move in (and juggle clandestine affairs with both mother and daughter). Meanwhile, Fiona meets Steve (James McAvoy), a nice guy and prosperous car salesman (too bad the cars are stolen).
Lending the Gallaghers a hand is neighbor Veronica (Maxine Peake), fiercely loyal and protective and a ferocious force of nature. One of her sidelights is ironing topless for the benefit of horny Internet viewers. Frank says it best when he asks at one point, 'Is anyone around here normal?' Written by Paul Abbott, Shameless has the same gritty setting and generous spirit as Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet. Prodigious use of the F-word and some fleeting full-frontal nudity notwithstanding, Shameless, would feel at home on American basic cable. The optional subtitles are recommended to make better sense of the thick accents and slang. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Shameless
If you like the series Shamelsss, you'll like the disgusting irreverance of the first series, as well.
Rating: - Shameless for sure!
It really is shameless, so if you are a prude, don't even bother! But it's also fun, has some great lines, fantastic actors and deals with emotion in an unexpectedly delicate way...
I enjoyed it and I recommend it.
Rating: - Rippingly funny but coarse yet tender Brit "Dromedy"
This show is so so funny yet still retains a heart as it explores life in UK estate housing of a dysfunctional family and their friends and neighbors. This show doesn't pull any punches in its depiction and feels truly honest whilst producing belly laughs and snickers alike throughout most episodes.
General plot: mum does a runner on a family with six kids and dad goes on a three year bender, leaving eldest daughter to run the family with only meager resources while also trying to have a life. The youngest daughter's coping is less than perfect and provides some of the funniest and scariest moments of the first series. If you have any empathy for the situation you will find the show engrossing -- although an appreciation for brit humor is also necessary to fully enjoy the show.
WHEN DO WE GET SERIES 2 - 5 !!!!!!!!!!
c'mon BBC get with it.
Rating: - Great
The Dvd Was delivered timely and it was a great DVD. Just looking for the next few series....
Rating: - Thank you Shameless
Caught an episode on the Sundance Channel and had to find out what this crazy family was about. Frank Gallagher is hilarious and charming and disgusting, but he steals the show. Shameless is the best tv I've seen in years. Thanks to Shameless I can't watch regular US tv now. Please release more seasons in US format! I'm going through withdrawls.
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