| Product Summary | | Publisher: Foxvideo | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00024543146957 | | Buy.com Sku: 40250161 | | Item#: VMYDLP | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 4954 | | Category Keywords: Series Television/TV Series | | Rating: UR |
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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary, Deleted/Extended Scenes, English, Spanish, French Subtitled, 3 Discs
In this critically acclaimed hit sitcom, you'll meet the suddenly penniless, and equally clueless, Bluth family. Accustomed to their wildly affluent lifestyle, they can't seem to grasp the fact that now the head of the family (Jeffrey Tambor) is in the slammer for shifty accounting practices - and he's loving every minute of it. Even worse, since the family assets have been frozen, they may actually have to go out and get jobs! The only one who understands the seriousness of their predicament is Michael (Jason Bateman), who realizes it's up to him to guide his eccentric family into this new chapter of their lives: Chapter 11.
Arrested Development Season 1 DVD includes all the Episodes that aired on the FOX network during the 2003-2004 Season and are available for the first time on DVD. The 3 Disc set also includes an Unaired Creator's Cut Pilot Episode.
Editor's Note
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by the fortune patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) made in the tract home development business. Oldest son George Oscar Bluth II, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues, while the youngest son Buster whiles away his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) is a vain socialite who throws parties with her sexually ambiguous husband (David Cross, MR. SHOW). The only sane member of the family is Linsay's twin brother Michael (Jason Bateman), a widower who stands to inherit the reins to the family corporation when his father retires. However, at the retirement party some unexpected obstacles are thrown into the mix: Michael, having informed the family that his first task as head of the company will be to confiscate everyone's credit cards, is passed over in favor of his snobby alcoholic mother, Lucille (Jessica Walter). Just when Michael decides to wash his hands of the family and move to Arizona with his 13-year-old son George Michael, George is arrested on fraud charges and the family's assets are frozen. Michael is forced to step up and aid his family in adjusting to their new lives. Shot with a shaky camera and a documentary air that creates a feeling of intimacy with the characters, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT is reminiscent of Wes Anderson's THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS and Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Truly unique in the realm of TV sitcoms, it employs a cinematic humor that often exhibits a dark side. While targeting the filthy rich and the squeaky clean families of prime time, it also displays a certain tragedy in the characters' eccentricities and helplessness. During its two seasons on Fox Network it garnered massive critical acclaim, and was nominated for 7 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and won the TV Land "Future Classic" award.
| Features | Behind-The-Scenes Featurette | | Interactive Menus | | Making Of Featurette | | Q & A | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Surround | | Widescreen Presentation | | Ron Howard Sneak Peek at Season 2 | | Arrested Development Promo Blind | | Easter Egg - Tobias Outake. | | Deleted/Extended scenes: Staff Infection, Missing Kitty, Altar Egos, Best Man for the Gob | | TV Land - Arrested Development: The Making of a Future Classic. | | TV Land Awards - The Future Classic Award | | The Museum of Television & Radio: Q&A with Creator Mitchell Hurwitz and the cast of Arrested Development. | | Episodes: Staff Infection, Missing Kitty, Altar Egos, Justice is Blind, Best Man for the Gob, Whistler's Mother, Not Without My Daughter, Let Them Eat Cake. | | Commentary by creator Mitchell Hurwitz and actors Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, and David Cross on Let Them Eat Cake | | Episodes: My Mother the Car, In God We Trust, Storming the Castle, Pier Pressure, Public Relations, Marta Complex, Beef Consomme, Shock and Aww | | Commentary by creator Mitchell Hurwitz and actors Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, and David Cross on Beef Consomme | | Deleted/Extended scenes: My Mother the Car, In God We Trust, Storming the Castle, Marta Complex, Beef Consomme, Shock and Aww | | Deleted/Extended scenes: Top Banana, Bringing Up Buster, Key Decisions, Visiting Ours | | Breaking Ground: Behind the Scenes of Arrested Development | | Original songs by David Schwartz (29 songs - audio only). | | Episodes: Creator's Cut Pilot (unaired), Pilot, Top Banana, Bringing Up Buster, Key Decisions, Visiting Ours, Charity Drive. | | Introduction by Ron Howard | | Commentary by creator Mitchell Hurwitz, directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo and actor Jason Bateman on Creator's Cut Pilot |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 10/19/2004 |
| Running Time: 491 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 2259373 | | UPC: 00024543146957 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"[I]t became a critics' darling and was the surprise winner of the Emmy for best comedy series." 10/21/2004 p.E10Movieline's Hollywood Life
"[With] wacky, deadpan humor and Seinfeld-like pretzel plots..." 10/01/2004 p.120 Uncut
"Wickedly cynical, always taking the joke a step too far to deranged effect..." 04/01/2004 p.144 Sight and Sound
"Handheld, faux-verite camerawork and skittish chronology are complemented by a voraciously eclectic aesthetic..." 05/01/2005 p.85 |
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