| | | From the Creators of Laguna Beach.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Dolby, Digital Audio
Dreams can come true...especially if you are young, rich, beautiful and yearning for a glamorous life. Lauren has left home to explore a life of fun and fashion in the Hills of Hollywood. She and her best friend, Heidi, have decided to go to the acclaimed Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in LA. Their aspirations for glamorous careers in the big city are so close they can taste it. The plan seems perfect; they have a great apartment, big dreams and each other. Little do they know that dreams don't always look anything like reality, especially when other people are involved.This three disc collection includes all 10 episodes from The Complete First Season of The Hills!
"A carefully massaged spinoff of sorts from "Laguna Beach," the series relocates flaxen-haired Lauren to the hills above West Hollywood..." Brian Lowry, Variety
"Like "Laguna Beach", "The Hills" is a good guilty pleasure." Brian Oliver, Movieman's Guide to the Movies
"...one of MTV's better reality efforts, as it follows L.C. and friends as they face the eternal struggle of how to effectively balance work and play." CurrentFilm.com
"...the definition of a guilty pleasure. The Hills meets every requirement of a soap opera but it is played out against the real world with the actual people in the roles." Home Theater Info
"Shot documentary-style and utilizing hand-held cameras to film cast members, The Hills [is]...a frothy, harmless show for the teen set." Ian Visser, DVD Verdict
Editor's Note
The star of the glamorous MTV hit "reality" series LAGUNA BEACH (Season One) heads for the more adult tinsel of Los Angeles in THE HILLS. Lauren Conrad (LC) embarks on a new set of more mature struggles as she bunks up with entertainingly ditsy roommate Heidi, attends fashion merchandising classes at FIDM, and tackles a demanding internship at Teen Vogue. Between professional and academic responsibilities, LC has little time left for drama, but still manages to squeeze in some troubled romance with LAGUNA heartbreaker Jason. THE HILLS will please fans of LAGUNA BEACH and beyond, as its subject matter is a bit less catty thanks to its nice-girl lead and the absence of bad-girl Kristin Cavallari--and it has an addictively stylish look.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 8/7/2007 |
| Running Time: 180 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 801224 | | UPC: 00097368012240 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Adam Divello - Writer | | Chris Figler, et. al. - Editor | | Heidi Montag - Featuring | | Hisham Abed - Cinematographer | | Jason Sands - Director | | Jennifer Howie - Featuring | | Lauren Conrad - Featuring | | Lisa Love - Featuring | | Mark Petersen - Cinematographer | | Matthew Testa - Director | | Tony DiSanto - Executive Producer | | William Langworthy - Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he TV equivalent of cotton candy -- fluffy, artificial, and totally addictive." 02/16/2007 p.64Variety 6 of 10
MTV sends out new reality programs for advance review only sporadically, and after witnessing an exercise in unrelenting vacuity like "The Hills," it's easy to understand why. A carefully massaged spinoff of sorts from "Laguna Beach," the series relocates flaxen-haired Lauren to the hills above West Hollywood, where she lands a "killer internship" at Teen Vogue while being surrounded by a new cast of beach-blanket-bingo friends. All told, it's "The Simple Life" with less substance, featuring youths that have clearly studied both the reality TV manual and "The OC" to perfect their "characters"...Granted, MTV is peddling a certain lifestyle and image with its reality fare, and virtually all reality shows set in Southern California indulge in cartoonish stereotypes, a la Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Orange County." - Brian Lowry
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