The Sopranos, The complete 1st season

The Resource The Sopranos, The complete 1st season
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The Sopranos, The complete 1st season
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The complete 1st season
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  • Sopranos
  • Sopranos
  • Sopranos
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Language
eng
Summary
The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood. The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognizable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism
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videorecording
Credits note
Created by David Chase
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Classification : MA 15+
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In English and French. Subtitles in French, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English for hearing imapired
PerformerNote
James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Tony Sirico
Runtime
696
Technique
live action

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