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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
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
Sales Rank: 12632
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 2002
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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
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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 ... Read More
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A 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.
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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 ... Read More
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I loved this show when it aired. Like all good clean family TV it was short lived. This set is great with all the extras. The quality it way better than it first aired. The surround sound is fantastic.
This is a great set for families. It teaches good moral values. The family is real and in they are not perfect and the kids disobey and do things they shouldn't. It is reality.
I love this show and cannot wait for season 2 to be released.
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What a great show. An amazing time when everything was changing and breaking ground for the way I was eventually raised-in the 70's when the world was a different place. It helped me understand better how my parents were raised and how hard it must have been to let go of so many absolutes you were raised with and change with the times. Everytime I put in a sidc to watch one episode, I found myself 4-5 hours later finishing the entire disc, missing my regular shows on live TV.
I'm sorry I ... Read More
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