| Product Summary | | Publisher: Lions Gate | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD | | UPC: 00031398213345 | | Buy.com Sku: 204238617 | | Item#: V2HKQP | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27473 | | Category Keywords: Comedy Television | | Rating: NR |
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| | | A Comedy Series About Dealing in the Suburbs.
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Yes, and it smells better, too! So when Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) faces both sudden widowhood and poverty, she's determined to do anything to keep her kids in suburbia, including taking a job as the neighborhood pot dealer. Subversive, satirical and hilarious, the first season of this groundbreaking Showtime hit is guaranteed to spark laughter!This Blu-ray Disc includes all 10 episodes from Season One of Weeds!
"Like Showtime's "Huff," there's much to like here..." Brian Lowry, Variety
"One of the best shows on television, end of story." San Francisco Chronicle
"...a terrific cast...the exceptionally versatile Parker makes [Nancy] seem level-headed, resourceful, and real." Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club
"...a great show complete with excellent acting, wry scripts, and a nice production look that makes it an amazing ride." Brett Cullum, DVD Verdict
Editor's Note
This intelligent comedy airing on the Showtime Channel stars Mary Louise Parker (ANGELS IN AMERICA) as Nancy Botwin, a recently widowed mother of two who finds herself in difficult financial straits. Her ingenious solution is to become the local pot dealer. Nancy's business really takes off, but she struggles to maintain her normal life and keep her secret from best friend and PTA president Celia (Elizabeth Perkins, BIG, MUST LOVE DOGS). Tonye Patano (LITTLE MANHATTAN) plays Nancy's streetwise dealer, with whom she has a tenuous friendship.
| Features | Showtime Original Content Including Special On Suburbia | | Smoke & Mirrors: Original Marijuana Mockumentary | | Agrestic Herbal Recipes | | Audio: English DTS 6.1 Surround Sound, DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: "More Than A Friend" By All Too Much | | Scene Selection | | Six Audio Commentaries With Cast & Crew | | Smokey Snippets | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 5/29/2007 |
| Running Time: 283 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 21334 | | UPC: 00031398213345 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2007) | | | Emmy, Amy McIntyre Britt, Anya Colloff, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Craig Zisk, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Thomas Cobb, Robert Bradley, Outstanding Main Title Design | | | Emmy, David Helfand, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Elizabeth Perkins, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | | | Golden Globe, Justin Kirk, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | |
Winner (2006) | | | Golden Globe, Mary-Louise Parker, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy | |
Nominee (2006) | | | Golden Globe, Weeds, Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy | | | Golden Globe, Elizabeth Perkins, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | |
Nominee (2008) | | | Image Award, Tonye Patano, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | |
Nominee (2007) | | | Image Award, Romany Malco, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | |
Nominee (2006) | | | Screen Actors Guild, Mary-Louise Parker, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"WEEDS caustically satirizes suburbia while peeking into a fringe family business....Showtime's series deals in a realism that's wincingly close to home." -- Grade: B 07/14/2006 p.68Rolling Stone
"WEEDS is smart and satirical without ever stopping to cheap stoner slapstick." 11/30/2006 p.98 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Mary-Louise Parker is snark and sass personified....A funky blend of laughs, cultural satire and the odd teary moment." 10/01/2007 p.141 Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "A great cast, superlative writing and inventive storylines make WEEDS an illicit delight." 10/01/2007 p.133 DVD Verdict 10 of 10
Showtime lived up to its "no limits" slogan by producing a situation comedy about a soccer mom who deals weed in the suburbs of California. It was a show no major network in their right mind would touch. Weeds is a tough sell from the start with a recently widowed Mary-Louise Parker (HBO's Angels in America, The West Wing) desperately trying to make ends meet for her family by doing something patently illegal. It's a dark subject, but thanks to a game cast, biting satire, and excellent direction the show works despite its distasteful premise...This is definitely a great show complete with excellent acting, wry scripts, and a nice production look that makes it an amazing ride. The critics and the cult followers are right about this one, and I found myself wondering why the show couldn't run head to head against Desperate Housewives. - Brett Cullum
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