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DVD : American Dreams - Season One (Extended Music Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Virginia Madsen, Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Brittany Snow, Will Estes directed by: Bill D'Elia, Bryan Spicer, Craig Zisk, Dan Lerner, Daniel Attias  List Price: $26.98 Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $6.99 (26%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 9781417015276 Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 1417015276 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 7 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 07, 2004 Running Time: 1094 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 2002 Sales Rank: 3995 MPN: MCAD25737D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007 Amazon.com: The 2002 first season of American Dreams introduced one of the more ambitious new dramas on a major television network since the debut of The West Wing. Deceptively nostalgic, American Dreams looks, at first blush, like a bone tossed to baby boomers who remember black and white TV, American Bandstand, and what class they were in when word spread of JFK's assassination. But the more one watches the show, the more apparent it becomes that American Dreams is not about memories but about bringing a pivotal chapter in 20th century U.S. history to life--sometimes electrifyingly so. The series pilot, set just before and on the day of Kennedy's murder, introduces Philadelphia family the Pryors, white, middle-class Catholics whose stern but not undiscerning patriarch, Jack (Tom Verica), gets an earful one night over dinner. Eldest son J.J. (Will Estes), a star running back at high school and candidate for a Notre Dame football scholarship, announces he's leaving the sport, feeling unappreciated for his mind and inspired by Kennedy's outreach to young people. Teenage daughter Meg (Brittany Snow) allows that she'll be dancing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Jack's wife, Helen (Gail O'Grady), later lets fly that she's moving on from her boring book club to spend time with a new friend, a feminist academic (Virginia Madsen), and strongly hints that she's done with adding more babies to their brood of four. The times are indeed a-changin' for the Pryors--who have chugged along on WWII vet Jack's fiercely protected vision of picket fences, cooperative kids, and a wife who doesn't upset his equilibrium with needs of her own. But the rest of the country is changing, too, and American Dreams captures--with subtle precision--the erosion of comfortable assumptions at the onset of the Vietnam war, the escalation of the civil rights movement, the British Invasion, reproductive rights for women, and much else. The series flows, often with stylish splendor, between the Pryors' home, the Bandstand studio set, and Jack's retail television and radio shop, where Jack's sole employee, an African American father, Henry (Jonathan Adams), wonders silently about the options a racist society will offer his talented son, Sam (Arlen Escarpeta). Wordlessness is a hallmark of American Dreams: An exchanged look between Meg and Sam is shattering testimony to the confusion of racial prohibitions among well-meaning kids. Part of every show finds historical reenactments of '60s musical acts appearing on Bandstand, and sometimes these artists are played by contemporary musicians such as Nick Carter (as Jay of Jay and the Americans) and Third Eye Blind (as the Kinks). This boxed set includes real Bandstand clips that are contemporaneous with the series' timeline. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating: - One of my all-time favorite showsAhh, I love American Dreams. I rewatch all three seasons every year around the holidays because they're such feel-good shows, especially the season 3 Christmas episode. Like everyone else, I'm dying for seasons 2 and 3 to be released on dvd, but to pacify me until then I bought "unofficial" copies from fellow "tvaddicts" online. I prefer the widescreen format as it originally aired, so I also downloaded it from certain fan websites. As to the Season 1 dvd, it's a nice collection. ... Read More Rating: - The bestThis is precisely what a television show is supposed to be. It was so beautifully done. Superb writing, actors, and of course, music. Broke my heart when it was cancelled. Shows like AMERICAN DREAMS just don't happen. It had something to say, with a truly original and entertaining way to say it. I still miss it and watch SEASON 1 over and over. It still makes me laugh, cry, and feel the emotion of the times and the characters. It is time to release SEASON 2 & SEASON 3, please... Rating: - This show is great... however...Ok, I won't relist all of the discriptions again or tell you about the show, see all the other reviews ... all I will say is this is an amazingly good show. I never saw it when it originally aired, but decided to buy it on DVD and take a chance, and for the most part I'm glad that I did... my only warning is = I never saw season 2 and 3 and now I have been left waiting for years with what looks like no hope in sight of ever seeing the other two seasons. So if you have never seen this show, you might want ... Read More Rating: - Awesome SeriesA great show at a great price on Amazon. It is really unfortunate that the other two seasons haven't come out and its even more unfortunate that they most likely won't come out. Rating: - The Way It Definitely Was!This was a spectacularly superior show. Superb casting, writing, and direction: Watching it was reliving my childhood days in the tumultous '60s exactly all over again. OK, they took a few liberties with some of the music, chronological datewise, but they were very close. But the pervasive atmosphere, social mores, and superb use of cameo TV show spots and pop songs (a surprising number the actual hit versions rather than redos) make this as close to how it really was back then as you'll ever get. With 80% ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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