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Californication - The First Season [2007] [DVD]

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  • Actors: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Jun 2008
  • Run Time: 327 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000XJ586O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 482 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Some people go all through their career without managing to land even one memorable role. Thanks to Californication, David Duchovny has now chalked up two. Yet Hank Moody is as far removed from The X-Files’ Fox Mulder as you can pretty much get. That’s because Moody is a successful author, only one with a real eye for the opposite sex. He’s a man caught in the midst of a troubled life, on one hand a father, on the other dabbling with the odd drink (to put it mildly). And it’s the complexity of the character that Duchovny clearly has a ball with, lifting Californication into must-see territory in the process.

A real show out of nowhere, Californication though has so much more going for it. The scripts veer between very funny moments and areas that other shows wouldn’t go anywhere near, while the supporting cast do ably up their game to keep up with the leading man.

The full first season of Californication is presented here, and it’s fair to say it leaves you salivating for more. An individual, entertaining and very funny show, this is one of those occasions where the hype surrounding a programme is there to be believed. Don’t miss it. --Jon Foster

DVD Description
David Duchovny (The X Files) returns to our screens in the hilariously dark new comedy series, Californication. Bachelor Hank Moody (Duchovny) has almost got it made: he's a sexy, best-selling author, but his insatiable appetite for beautiful women often lands him in hot water. Every day, Hank finds himself in bed with another woman and two steps back from his ultimate goal – restoring his family. He wouldn’t mind reviving his writing career either, but as a part-time dad juggling his wild LA lifestyle with grown-up responsibilities, this "devil may care" writer is at a loss for words. From the very first episode, Hank sets the tone for the whole series. We meet him first in a church asking Jesus to help him get his life back on track, but he gets distracted by a hot nun, which turns out to be a dream that is representative of his lifestyle – he then goes on to have sex with a woman who is cheating on her enraged husband and a 16 year-old girl who he thinks is in college. This clever comedy also stars Natascha McElhone (Solaris) as Hank's ex-girlfriend, Madeleine Martin as Becca, his wise-beyond-her-years 12 year-old daughter and Evan Handler (Sex And The City)as Charlie, Hank's best friend and agent.

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Moody guy, 22 Sep 2008
By Kevin Clarke "kevin17566" (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews
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Hank Moody (David Duchovny) is a washed-up, middle-aged boozehound suffering from writer's block who is somehow irresistible to gorgeous women 20 years his junior. Oh, and he's pretty handy with his fists too.
If you can get over the blatant 'wish fulfilment' premise, and the crude pun of the title, 'Californication' offers a sharp, funny take on modern LA life - albeit a privileged, artistic section of it.

You can tell Hank's a writer because he wears black shirts and has slightly unkempt hair. He writes novels with fashionably nihilistic titles like 'God Hates Us All' and has had to suffer the humilation of seeing it made into a risible romcom called 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', starring Tom and Katie. No wonder he's Moody.

To cap it all, he's recently split from Karen, the love of his life and father of his 13 year old daughter, Becca, and is busy "drowning himself in a sea of pointless pus*y."

Meanwhile, his bald agent, who is married, is thigh-high in an S&M affair with his pretty 22 year old assistant. We see him guiltily spanking her pert little bottom in his office.

Hank's true love is now with an uptight publisher called Bill who, naturally, is everything Hank isn't - orderly, mannered, sober. His hair is most definitely kempt. Hank's the real man for her - she knows it, he knows it, heck, even Bill knows it. But will they work their way back to each other?

Following in the footsteps of other sexually frank American cable TV series like 'Sex And The City' and 'Six Feet Under', 'Californication' is, if anything, even ruder. Where it scores over those shows though is in its tender, unsentimental depiction of Hank's relationship with his precocious, yet sweet-natured, daughter.

As someone once said, the battle of the sexes will never be won - there's too much fraternising with the enemy. In the meantime, let 'Californication' be your filthy, funny guide to the many skirmishes along the way.

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BLOODY HELL, 13 Jan 2008
By Mr. William Oxley "oxenblocks" (Farnham, England) - See all my reviews
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WHERE THE HELL DID THIS COME FROM???

A totally chaotic individual too scared to follow his talent pines for his lost love and shags his way around the city of LA. David Duchovny gives a masterful performance as a writer who has struck gold with his novel but having moved from NY to LA is now drinking himself into one bed after another. But he wants his family back together, loves his daughter and wants to love his hearts true love, which is now betrothed to another. The story is great, the acting is great, the content is explicit, and as the series title suggests most definitely adult only.

Bloody Brilliant!!!

A darkly brooding heroic character that is funny but pathetic. talented but empty, has found true love but loves many women, a contradiction but so true to life.

Be entertained by a really surprising show and masterful performance!!!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sex & The City For Guys and Girls, 29 Oct 2008
A Kid's Review
For anyone who thought Sex & The City was too camp to watch (didn't The Simpsons describe it as a show about four women who act like gay men?), here is the grown-up, sassy and sexy alternative.

David Duchovny may be better known for the X-Files, but here he looks much happier, playing the blocked writer Hank Moody, living fast in LA, trying to win back his partner Karen (Natasha McElhone(?) and their daughter from a wealthy but dull publisher, Bill. Kinda reminded me of The Philadelphia Story, minus the class warfare.

This comedy is sharp, with crackling dialogue, very explicit, but in the best sense, adult. The title may sound gimmicky, but it tells you what you need to know: that this is a series about adult relations and the rights and wrongs attached to exercising our freedom to pursue casual relationships at the expense of greater and more meaningful ones.

Anyway, it's a winner, funny but serious. If you're eighteen or over, see it.
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