| | | Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Documentary, Audio Commentary, English, French, Spanish Subtitled, 6 Discs
One of TV's most acclaimed drama series, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Six Feet Under, concludes its groundbreaking, five season run. Each of the main characters will come to embrace the cycle of life - birth, death, and re-birth - in ways that are both unique and interconnected. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends. Contains all 12 episodes from the final season of the popular HBO series!
"Fascinating...hypnotically quixotic...darkly adventurous..." Washington Post
Editor's Note
Featuring stellar writing and directing, SIX FEET UNDER boasts an outstanding ensemble cast featuring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Griffiths, Freddy Rodriguez, Matthew St. Patrick, Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Bates, and many others. Created by Alan Ball (the screenwriter behind the Oscar-winning 1999 film AMERICAN BEAUTY), the HBO series could arguably have been called the best show on television during its five-season run. Gaining loyal fans with its complex and involving characters (many of the show's stars came from theatre backgrounds), the series also stood out for its serious themes, its dark humor, and Ball's use of surrealist imagery. The show focuses on a dynamic Los Angeles family that operates a funeral home in the lower levels of the house where they live. When the patriarch of the family dies (in the first episode), his sons are left to run the business, their shared responsibilities producing a constant tension. While the plot often veers from this premise, it always eventually makes its way back to the Fisher and Sons Funeral Home (later changed to Fisher and Diaz when Federico becomes a partner). Each week, the story behind each of their clients serves to distract the Fisher brothers from what's going on in their own tumultuous lives and those of their multigenerational family members. The fifth and final season is the show's most dramatic, exploring issues of marriage, adultery, adoption, divorce, and death. As some characters move forward in their lives, others encounter setbacks and get thrown off course. While fans of the show found the series' end hard to accept, SIX FEET UNDER attempted in its last (widely interpreted) five minutes to provide viewers with some sense of closure to the intense, real, funny, and compelling family saga that was the Fishers' lives.
| Features | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
| | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1); French Dolby Digital (2.0) | | Life and Loss Documentary -- a look at the cultural impact of Six Feet Under. | | Six audio commentaries with Alan Ball, Lauren Ambrose, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conray and writers and directors | | Six Feet Under 2001-2005 Parts One and Two, episodic previews and recaps, season 4 recap |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: HBO |
| Release Date: 1/6/2009 |
| Running Time: 657 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 93144 | | UPC: 00026359314421 | | Number of Discs: 5 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Grammy (2006) | | | Arcade Fire, Nominee, Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | |
Screen Actors Guild (2006) | | | Lauren Ambrose, et. al., Nominee, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | |
Grammy (2006) | | | Six Feet Under, Nominee, Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media |
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| | Professional Reviews | Home Theater Info DVD Review 9 of 10
Unlike so many series this one concluded with a feeling of completeness. A term used so often by the Fisher Brothers was closure, and series creator Alan Ball has provided that to his fans. As almost everyone that follows this series knows by now the last moments of that fateful last episode were a series of flash-forward scenes. Important moments in the characters lives and their eventual deaths are shown as the series concludes. The audience is given an opportunity to see all the loose ends neatly tied up. We've stuck with these characters through some very depressing moments; it was satisfying to see some happiness would finally come into their lives.
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