The Sopranos - The Complete First Season [VHS]

The Sopranos - The Complete First Season [VHS]

The Sopranos - The Complete First Season [VHS]
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Primary Contributor: James Gandolfini
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 680 minutes
Release Date: 2000-12-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Studio: Hbo Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of The Sopranos - The Complete First Season [VHS]

Movie Review: Lives up to the hype
Summary: 4 Stars

I'm probably the last person on the planet to watch the Sopranos. At first I thought that the genre would turn me off. Then I thought that it would be too muddled in Mafioso minutiae to hold my interest. Little did I expect a family story in keeping with the OC only on the East Coast and instead of a left leaning attorney father figure, I'd find a two fisted family man. Instead of bagels with a schemer we get pasta in take out containers.

The family is a caricature of the typical East Coast Italian clan. We get momma who lays guilt on her kids, Uncle Pussy with the heart of gold (and lead), Uncle Junior who's at the end of his reign of leadership and the wife who has the hots for the parish padre.

Tony hooks up with a head shrink which strikes fear into the "family" as they are sure he's telling tales "out of school". All in all, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this series and have every intention to purchase Season II......bg


Movie Review: THE SOPRANOS 1ST SEASON DVD SET
Summary: 1 Stars

I NEVER RECEIVED THIS PRODUCT FROM BILL'S GREAT BOOKS. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM! I TRIED TO CONTACT THEM AND RECEIVED NO RESPONSE! THANKFULLY AMAZON REIMBURSED ME!

Movie Review: Quality!
Summary: 5 Stars

Ten years after the first season premiered, the Sopranos is just as relevant and entertaining as ever. You don't even have to be into gangster films to enjoy this series. It definitely puts the human touch on characters otherwise would be considered inhuman since they are criminals. The first season is incredible and the steam never runs out. The characters are very believable because the acting is absolutely amazing and the stories are just as rich. There is definitely at least one character in this series that anyone can relate to directly or indirectly. I am very happy to say that this series does live up to it's hype and is a thrill that you just don't want to stop watching

Movie Review: honest description
Summary: 5 Stars

The product I ordered arrived in the exact condition that was described. It was delivered in the alloted time and no problems at all. Thanks.

Movie Review: The Sopranos - Third Season
Summary: 5 Stars

This series is very good and entertaining. I have seasons 1 and 2 and will shortly buy season 4. It is not for children to watch, but it is great entertainment for adults.

Summary of The Sopranos - The Complete First Season [VHS]

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: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO 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 recognizable 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 dramatization 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) henchmen 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

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