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  • Actors: James Gandolfini, Aida Turturro, Tony Darrow, John Ventimiglia, Dominic Chianese
  • Format: Box set, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 16 April 2001
  • Run Time: 696 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005AWEY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,802 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, 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 collegial mob clan and his own nouveau riche brood.

The series' brilliant first season 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 season'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, Amazon.com

Special Features
1.33 Full Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English
Dolby Digital Surround


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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Where Goodfellas left off..., 30 May 2001
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This is the jewel in the crown of my DVD collection.

After seeing nearly every retro-gangster movie, this progresses to a new level. The ideas of exploring how the family is affected and how old mafia values are lost is unrevealed terrain and has a devastating effect by taking everything that is essential to a gangster movie and adding everything that makes a TV series good. It gives you a chance to see the workings of a mafia family in more detail and the sub-plots that intertwine both the crime aspect and family aspects make this a thoroughly intriguing TV show.

Do yourself a favour and splash out on this. Enjoy!

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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE SOPRANOS HIT A HIGH NOTE..., 8 Mar 2003
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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My son is a big Sopranos fan, so I bought him the first season DVD set for Christmas. I myself had seen maybe two or three episodes on cable and had enjoyed them. So, when he began watching the set, I was right there watching with him. What a terrific show. It is absolutely gripping.

It is a marvelously creative series with a stellar cast. For those of you who have been visiting relatives in Antarctica for the past several years, the story revolves around the mob in New Jersey. It centers on one family specifically, the Sopranos, headed by Anthony Soprano (James Gandolfini), who is married to his loyal childhood sweetheart, Carmela (Edie DeFalco). Together they have two children, Meadow and Anthony, Jr. Tony's dangerously manipulative mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand), is bound for a retirement home, if Tony has any say.

Tony, however, has another family, comprised of a bunch of murderous henchmen, who occasionally march to the tune of a different drummer, and a Russian mistress. Trying to balance all this has given Tony panic attacks, so he goes to a psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), whose relationship with her client alternates between fear and fascination.

The writing for this series is splendid and the interweaving of comedic and familial moments with the darker, more violent ones provides the viewer with an intelligently woven plot. James Gandolfini is outstanding as Tony Soprano, a powerful mob boss, who can also be a teddy bear of a guy and a good friend, unless you are perceived to have been disloyal. Then, you may kiss your buns goodbye. Tony is mercurial, sexy, fearful, cautious, and, given the right circumstances, deadly. He is a fascinating and beguiling character. Edie DeFalco is warm, funny, loyal, and the glue that binds their immediate family together. Yet, she too has her own sting, and she knows the power that her husband has. She is not above using it herself, if necessary. The late Nancy Marchand was terrific as Livia, the manipulative, scheming mother. She will be missed, as she was quite a character.

Be aware, however, that this show is totally addictive! Once you have seen the first season, you will be hooked and will want to see the entire second, third, and fourth seasons, as well.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING ESSENTIAL COMPULSIVE VIEWING!, 4 Jan 2002
By deano@eircom.net (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
I'd heard about this series from respected critical friends but never got the time to catch it on TV, so, many months later I bought this series 1 pack and after watching episode 1 was HOOKED!!! Although I like mob-type movies I'm not a massive fan, but this series is something totally new, fresh & sometimes outragous, it's excellent!!!!
Buy this then buy the next series, I have and am glued to the clever witty portrayal of a normal man raising a family & running a household whilst balancing his underworld business on a knife-edge!
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