| Record Number |
785428 |
| Title |
The Sopranos. The complete first season [videorecording]. |
| Edition |
Widescreen. |
| Publisher/Date |
Neutral Bay, N.S.W. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008] |
| Neutral Bay, N.S.W. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2006. |
| ©1999. |
| Pagination etc. |
4 DVD-videos (approximately 696 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Warner Bros : 25180. |
| DVD release of episodes originally broadcast on television during 1999. |
| Includes special features: Featurette: family life ; Interview with David Chase ; Audio commentary: on the "Sopranos" by creator/writer/director David Chase and Peter Bogdanovich. |
| A HBO Home Video. |
| Disc 1 : The Sopranos ; Denial, anger, acceptance ; Meadowlands -- Disc 2 : College ; Pax Soprana ; Down neck -- Disc 3 : The legend of Tennessee Moltisanti ; Boca ; A hit is a hit -- Disc 4 : Nobody knows anything ; Isabella ; I dream of Jeannie Cusamano. |
| Creation Note |
Created by David Chase. |
| Performer note |
James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Target audience note |
Classification : MA 15+. |
| Language note |
In English and French. Subtitles in French, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English for hearing impaired. |
| Subject |
Gangsters -- United States -- Drama |
| Italian Americans -- Drama |
| Mafia -- United States -- New Jersey -- Drama |
| Middle-aged men -- Drama |
| Psychotherapy -- Drama |
| Family-owned business enterprises -- Drama |
| New York (N.Y.) -- Drama |
| New Jersey -- Drama |
| Television programs. |
| Television series. |
| Gangster television programs. |
| Fiction television programs. |
| Added Author |
Chase, David, 1945- creator. |
| Gandolfini, James, 1961-2013 actor. |
| Bracco, Lorraine, 1955- actor. |
| Falco, Edie actor. |
| Imperioli, Michael, 1966- actor. |
| Chianese, Dominic, 1931- actor. |
| Sirico, Tony actor. |
| Corporate Author |
Warner Home Video (Firm) |
| Added title |
Sopranos (Television program). |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F SOPR |
