Eli Stone: The Complete First Season
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Actor: Eli StoneDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 559 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Eli Stone: The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Eli Stone Series 1
Summary: 4 Stars
Fun and easy to watch. Sensitive scenes were handled very well, without being too 'Kitch'. Exhibited a clear understanding of relationships at personal and professional levels.DVD Review: WOW!!! What a REFRESHINGLY WONDERFUL SERIES!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Eli Stone is such a refreshing breath of fresh air! This series takes a new look at the question of "IS THERE SOMETHING MORE THAT I COULD DO?"! This series takes a successful lawyer who gets whacked with "visions" out of the blue. The visions however, are coming from an aneurysm. This is some what unbelievable for someone who seems to only have faith in ambition and success. So as the series progresses, even though he is plagued with these visions, he is becoming more confident in his faith but is constantly questioning it. At the season cliff hanger, he decides to have his aneurysm removed and the question is what's next! I LOVE this series and I think anyone who has ever dealt with a question of faith or even is there something more out there!DVD Review: Strongly Recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
Eli Stone season one ranks among my favorite television programs of the last few decades. Perhaps what attracts me most to this series is how Eli Stone (the character) is so willing to sacrifice his status and reputation to do what he believes is right. His visions often take the form of his co-workers dancing and singing, and inevitably, he becomes swept up in the moment only to discover he is the only one actually dancing and singing when his vision ends. While these actions are involuntary, the decisions he makes when he is in control are what make him endearing. He would rather have his contemporaries think he is crazy than to risk the welfare of his friends or even a stranger.
The first season stands alone as a complete story. It starts slowly and builds gradually to a finale that is a true work of art. While I am glad they are making a second season, I must admit that I have mixed feelings. Sometimes the right thing to do is to recognize when a painting or musical composition or story is complete. Adding any more may detract from the whole. Perhaps I worry too much.
Regardless of how the second season turns out, the first season is well worth your time and money. Eli Stone puts a tenacious smile on your face, and as irrational as this sounds, you can't help but like everything and everyone a little bit more after each episode.
DVD Review: Eli Stone DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great DVD. I love the speed of delivery and the way it was packaged. Eli Stone is a great show and I cant wait for season 2 to start! The guest spots by George Michael are amazing. The entire cast of the show is perfect! I recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to have a great time with a great show.DVD Review: A nice story of a prophet-lawyer and a lovely celebration of pop star George Michael
Summary: 5 Stars
Eli Stone: The Complete First Season
I purchased this DVD because I'm a loyal fan of George Michael and I can't see Eli Stone in Italy. Thanks to Guggenheim and Berlanti for their celebration of pop star George Michael: each episode sports one of Michael's songs as its signature theme.
Jonny Lee Miller, as Eli Stone, is a nice and great actor; he said "'It was a big challenge to work with George, because I was a huge fan."
Nice pictures, great actors, original themes, amazing songs.
My final opinion is "a nice story of a prophet-lawyer and a lovely celebration of pop star George Michael".
The DVD that I purchased is an excellent product from Amazon
Description of Eli Stone: The Complete First Season
Follow Eli Stone (Jonny Miller) on his quirky quest for answers in this exciting and upbeat comedic drama. When Eli awakens to an unending George Michael soundtrack that only he can hear, gets dive-bombed by a WWI biplane on a busy San Francisco street, and faces a fire-breathing dragon outside his office window, there are two possible explanations: delusions caused by a potentially fatal brain aneurysm or the chance that something greater is at work. He might just be a prophet sent to change the world. Victor Garber and Loretta Devine lead an acclaimed supporting cast in this wonderfully wacky new series, ELI STONE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON. Complete with every Season One episode, exclusive bloopers and behind-the-scenes footage, this 4-disc box set will surprise, inspire and leave you feeling like you gotta have faith.It takes a while for Eli Stone to hit its stride, but when it does (a little past the halfway point in this, its first season, with 13 episodes presented on four discs), this show is engaging, provocative, and flat-out entertaining. Of course, a lot of new series need some time to get themselves together, especially when breathing the rarefied air of high concept; and with its combination of drama (and sentimentality), comedy, special effects, and more, Eli Stone certainly fits that description. As the season kicks off, the eponymous hero (played Jonny Lee Miller, a Brit actor sporting a very convincing American accent) is a stereotypical lawyer, ambitious, materialistic, and snarky, helping his San Francisco firm's corporate clients fill their coffers at the expense of the poor and downtrodden. But then he has a vision--specifically, George Michael singing "Faith" atop Eli's coffee table. Many more such hallucinations will follow, including an earthquake, trench warfare in some unnamed battle, a hospital patient beseeching Eli to help him, and flashbacks of his own dead father; but whether they result from the brain aneurysm that's discovered during the first episode or from the fact that he is, as his acupuncturist (James Saito) informs him, "a prophet," Eli realizes that a major change is in order. And so he decides to "fix the world, one lawsuit at a time," which translates into pro bono cases on behalf of an autistic kid, an infertile young immigrant, abused prisoners, and other unfortunates, some of whom have been victimized by the very companies Eli's firm represents.
Much of the legal business is handled more with Ally McBeal whimsy than Law & Order seriousness, and cases involving, say, two "gay" chimpanzees add little to the show's appeal. Nor do some of the ongoing personal relationships, like the cutesy-annoying interludes with Eli and the boss' daughter (Natasha Henstridge) or a young associate at the firm (Julie Gonzalo), bring much to the party; much better are his dealings with his mouthy but indispensable assistant (Loretta Devine, excellent in a clich?d role) and brother (Matt Letscher), a conflicted physician. But Eli's own arc, as he comes to accept what's happening to him and how his newly-acquired powers of clairvoyance can best be put to use, is handled beautifully; from the eighth episode ("Praying for Time," probably the high point of the season, in which virtually every character experiences a major breakthrough or catharsis) onward, Eli Stone becomes the TV version of a book you can't put down. Bonus features include audio commentary on two episodes, bloopers, and several brief but informative featurettes. --Sam Graham
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