"...First Do No Harm" [DVD] [1997] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Overall, the quality of this DVD is not bad, but could have been much better - considering the amount of "extras" on the DVD (or lack thereof) and the length of the movie, the MPEG2 bitrate could have been much higher to make it look better! At least it looks much better than the other DVD I bought (trust me, that other one looks BAD!), so I guess I should be grateful about FDNH's reasonable video quality! I just wonder why the space available on the DVD was not used more efficiently...

Regarding the "extras" on this DVD:
"About the stars" is limited to short biographies of Meryl Streep and Fred Ward... but this movie is not just about those two people - what about Seth Adkins, who plays as big a part (if not bigger than Mr Ward) in the movie? How about some biographical and credit information of the director (Jim Abrahams), who's family this movie was based on? They may as well have left out this section altogether.
The photo gallery consists of only 12 rather ordinary-looking pictures from the movie. These could have been chosen more carefully - the angles and location (most are very distant) of the "snapshots" could have been much better for a "gallery"!
For the "Ketogenic diet" and "About the stars" text scrolls up very slowly and you must read at the (slow) speed it scrolls at - arrows or buttons to scroll up and down with would have been nice! This section could have provided more info about the Ketogenic diet and where to find out more.

Something else that puzzles me - why does the DVD's volume label say "fdnh_no_css"? Why wasn't it just "fdnh" or even "firstdonoharm"? It honestly looks like an amateur slapped everything together in one afternoon without even bothering to test it afterwards!

Well in conclusion, the movie is definitely worth watching more than once, especially if you know someone who suffers from epilepsy and if the DVD at least WORKS properly it is also worth owning on DVD, even without any "extras". The acting is very convincing and the director/producer (Jim Abrahams) obviously knew what he was doing when he made the movie, since it was based on his own family's experience in dealing with his son's illness. I just feel that Mr Abrahams might also be a little disappointed with the DVD because it could have been used much more effectively to educate people about epilepsy (many people don't even realise that there are different kinds of epilepsy and some think that you can "get it" if you come into contact with someone suffering from it), if "they" (the people who made the DVD) took a little more time and PLANNED it! Oh and it would have been great if they tested everything after the DVD was done, BEFORE selling it! I would rate the movie 4 1/2 out of 5, but the DVD... about 1 1/2 out of 5 (I have actually seen worse DVDs!)!