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  • Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Michael Imperioli
  • Writers: David Chase
  • Producers: Dan Kaplow, L. Green, Omneya 'Nini' Mazen
  • Format: Box set, PAL, Subtitled
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Dutch, Romanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Nov 2003
  • Run Time: 696 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AZVIH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,035 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television seriesThe Sopranos is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home. This ambitious TV 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 collegiate mob clan and his own nouveau-riche brood.

The brilliant first series 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 recognisable 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 dramatisation 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) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.

The first year'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



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  • Pax Soprano
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  • Boca
  • A Hit Is A Hit
  • Nobody Knows Anything
  • Isabella
  • Jeanne Cusamano
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another superb US import, 28 Nov 2003
An excellent series charting the life of Mafiosa Tony Soprano as well as his family and associates. The gangster genre has undergone many different interpretations over the years, with the highlights being the obvious: Godfather, Once Upon A Time In America etc. However, it is about time a well-made, well-acted and ultimately realistic portrayal came to the small screen - and the Sopranos is it, without a shadow of a doubt. Gritty and violent, yet sardonic and sexy, this series is another fantastic import from HBO. Its popularity is well deserved, and despite some criticism in later series when the focus drifts onto secondary (and more annoying) characters, this first series heralded a new class of tv shows. Highly recommended.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just when I thought I was out..., 9 Dec 2003
they puuulll me back in!

Back in your chair to watch the rest of the Sopranos, that is!

This first season of the Sopranos is a real beauty. A great cast (unbelievable acting-debute of Steven Van Zandt!). Great music (Tindersticks e.g.). Great cinematography (little spoiler: Tony's first attack). Great script and quotes. And the necessary humor.

This great show comes in a 4-disk dvd-box. The box-art is really nice. There are some extra's (audio comment of the director for the pilote, an interview with the director,..) but not very much. And maybe also good to know if you're non-UK: there are subtitles for most European languages.

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars unbelievably good, 22 Dec 2005
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I heard talk of 'The Sopranos' when it first appeared on British TV but thought the title too daft for it to be worth looking at. More fool me. I have all the series now, 1-5, and am frequently staggered by the brilliance of the enterprise, and how it has unfolded and developed. I lent Series 1 to a friend ; he rather shamefacedly told me later that he had sat down to watch the first episode in a morning and, totally transfixed, watched the whole series right through. It gets you that way, and I can't think of much else that does. A modern classic.
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3.0 out of 5 stars OK. Nothing to rave about
Perhaps The Sopranos was cutting edge when it was new and shiny. However I missed the show and came to it late. Read more
Published 1 month ago by bob

5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing ever on TV!
I think the title pretty much sums it up! If you are into your gangster / crime stories then this is the best you will see, it's like a 16 hour version of Goodfellas if not... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Paul

5.0 out of 5 stars Jonjan
Absolutely brilliant particularly when the different characters develop. Gandolphini is terrific.
Have now got to buy the second series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars SOPRANOS (1) RULE (S)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling viewing
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Superb...!
Where have I been? This show is simply fantastic, and I've been reeled in since the first series, and now have five of these fantastic series, hoping to add the sixth one soon... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST series of Sapranos
The episode that I keep on revisiting is the first one. It sets the scene so perfectly. Each of the main characters are shown for who they really are. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars American Beauty
In the first season we are introduced to the Soprano family. The most impressive thing here is that we're not just introduced to `the family' but we're introduced, quite... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A God's gift
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